English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 14
“Why don't you go to work my lad?” said he to Dick.
Who acts: Dick · What happens: not go, work, say · To what, where: lad, Dick · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dick), 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 | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 go | advmod |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 go | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 go | advmod |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 go | nsubj |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 work | mark |
| 8 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 go | xcomp |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 lad | nmod:poss |
| 10 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 work | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Dick | case |
| 16 | Dick | Dick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go in a quote | present · do-support | Dick | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | work in a quote | to-infinitive | Dick not said here | my lad | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent lad=Material | ||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | Dick | Dick | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to dick=Recipient |
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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