English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 47

He said: “I've outrun an old man, and an old woman, and a little boy, and two well-diggers, and I can outrun you too-o-o!”

Who acts: Johnny · What happens: say, outrun · To what, where: two diggers, old man, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Lazy Jack. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Johnny), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 outrun	punct
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 outrun	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 outrun	nsubj
6	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 outrun	aux
7	outrun	outrun	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 said	ccomp
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 outrun	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 woman	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 woman	cc
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 woman	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 woman	amod
15	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 outrun	obl:agent
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 boy	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 boy	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 boy	det
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 boy	amod
20	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 outrun	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 diggers	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 diggers	cc
23	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 diggers	nummod
24	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 two	advmod
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 well	punct
26	diggers	digger	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 said	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 outrun	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 outrun	cc
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 outrun	nsubj
30	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 outrun	aux
31	outrun	outrun	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 outrun	obj
33	too	too	ADV	_	31 outrun	advmod
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 too	punct
35	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	37 o	case
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 o	punct
37	o	o	INTJ	_	31 outrun	discourse
38	!	!	PUNCT	_	31 outrun	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	31 outrun	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: express	past	Johnny	two diggers	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	outrun in a quote	present · perfect	Johnny	a old man	tree rules
3	outrun in a quote	can	Johnny	you	tree rules

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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