English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring, sentence 20

“I don't know, sir,” said the girl, “I was picked up just here after having been brought down by the river about fifteen years ago.”

Who acts: girl, river · What happens: not know, say, pick up, bring down · To what, where: girl · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Fish and the Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, river), 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	_	5 know	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 know	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 know	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 know	advmod
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sir	punct
7	sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 know	vocative
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 girl	det
12	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 picked	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 picked	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 picked	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 picked	aux:pass
17	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 said	conj
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 picked	compound:prt
19	just	just	ADV	_	20 here	advmod
20	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 picked	advmod
21	after	after	SCONJ	_	24 brought	mark
22	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 brought	aux
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 brought	aux:pass
24	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 picked	advcl
25	down	down	ADP	_	24 brought	compound:prt
26	by	by	ADP	_	28 river	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 river	det
28	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 brought	obl
29	about	about	ADV	_	30 fifteen	advmod
30	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 years	nummod
31	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 ago	obl:unmarked
32	ago	ago	ADV	_	24 brought	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not know in a quote	present · do-support	the girl = girl			sir vocative	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past	the girl				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	pick up in a quote	past · passive		the girl = girl	here		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
4	bring down in a quote	gerund · perfect · passive	the river			ago property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent

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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