English Fairy Tales, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold., sentence 1
“It is not so, nor it was not so,” said Mr. Fox.
Who acts: It, Mr. Fox · What happens: not be, be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, Mr. Fox), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 so | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 so | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 so | advmod |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 said | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 was | punct |
| 7 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 9 was | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 was | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | ccomp |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 so | advmod |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 was | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 was | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 was | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Fox | compound |
| 16 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | It | so property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | past | it | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Mr. Fox | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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