English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 52
He said: “I've outrun an old man, and an old woman and a little boy, and two well-diggers, and two ditch-diggers, and I can outrun you too-o-o!”
Who acts: bear · What happens: say, outrun · To what, where: 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 (bear), 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 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 boy | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 boy | det |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 boy | amod |
| 19 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 woman | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 diggers | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 diggers | cc |
| 22 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 diggers | nummod |
| 23 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 two | advmod |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 well | punct |
| 25 | diggers | digger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 outrun | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 diggers | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 diggers | cc |
| 28 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 diggers | nummod |
| 29 | ditch | ditch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 diggers | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 ditch | punct |
| 31 | diggers | digger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 outrun | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 outrun | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 outrun | cc |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 outrun | nsubj |
| 35 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 outrun | aux |
| 36 | outrun | outrun | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 outrun | obj |
| 38 | too | too | ADV | _ | 36 outrun | advmod |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 too | punct |
| 40 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 42 o | case |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 o | punct |
| 42 | o | o | INTJ | _ | 36 outrun | discourse |
| 43 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 42 o | punct |
| 44 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 outrun | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | bear | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | outrun in a quote | present · perfect | bear | a old man | two diggers obl; two ditch diggers obl | tree rules | |||
| 3 | outrun in a quote | can | bear | 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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