English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 48

“Ye can, can ye? we'll see about that!” said they; and they threw down their spades, and ran after him too.

Who acts: we, diggers · What happens: see, say, throw down, run · To what, where: spades · 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 (we, diggers), 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	_	10 see	punct
2	Ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	3 can	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 see	aux
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 can	punct
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 can	conj
6	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	5 can	nsubj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 can	punct
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 see	nsubj
9	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 see	aux
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
11	about	about	ADP	_	12 that	case
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 see	obl
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 threw	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 threw	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 threw	nsubj
20	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	parataxis
21	down	down	ADP	_	20 threw	compound:prt
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 spades	nmod:poss
23	spades	spade	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 threw	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 ran	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 ran	cc
26	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 threw	conj
27	after	after	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 ran	obl
29	too	too	ADV	_	26 ran	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	can · future	we			about that	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: ask	past	diggers = digger				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	throw down	past	diggers = digger	diggers's spades			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spade=Theme
4	run	past	diggers = digger not said here		after Johnny		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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