English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 57
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 a bear, and I can outrun you too-o-o!”
Who acts: wolf · 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 (wolf), 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 | _ | 32 diggers | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 diggers | cc |
| 29 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 diggers | nummod |
| 30 | ditch | ditch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 diggers | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 ditch | punct |
| 32 | diggers | digger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 diggers | nmod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 bear | cc |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 bear | det |
| 35 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 diggers | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 outrun | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 outrun | cc |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 outrun | nsubj |
| 39 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 outrun | aux |
| 40 | outrun | outrun | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 41 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 outrun | obj |
| 42 | too | too | ADV | _ | 40 outrun | advmod |
| 43 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 too | punct |
| 44 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 46 o | case |
| 45 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 44 o | punct |
| 46 | o | o | INTJ | _ | 40 outrun | discourse |
| 47 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 40 outrun | punct |
| 48 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 outrun | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | wolf | two diggers two ditch diggers and a bear | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | outrun in a quote | present · perfect | wolf | a old man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | outrun in a quote | can | wolf | 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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