English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring, sentence 7

And the man said: “Well, your honour, the fact is, I've five children already, and now a sixth's come, a little lass, and where to get the bread from to fill their mouths, that's more than I can say.”

Who acts: man, that, your · What happens: say, get, fill, be, honour · To what, where: bread, mouths · 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 (man, that, your), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 is	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 is	punct
7	Well	well	INTJ	_	14 is	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Well	punct
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 honour	nmod:poss
10	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 is	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fact	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fact	det
13	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 honour	conj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 've	cop
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 is	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 've	nsubj
17	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
18	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 children	nummod
19	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 've	obj
20	already	already	ADV	_	17 've	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 come	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 come	cc
23	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 come	advmod
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 sixth	det
25	sixth	sixth	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 come	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 sixth	case
27	come	come	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 lass	punct
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 lass	det
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 lass	amod
31	lass	lass	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 come	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 get	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 get	cc
34	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	36 get	advmod
35	to	to	PART	_	36 get	mark
36	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 bread	det
38	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 get	obj
39	from	from	ADP	_	41 fill	case
40	to	to	PART	_	41 fill	mark
41	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 get	conj
42	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 mouths	nmod:poss
43	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 fill	obj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 more	punct
45	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	47 more	nsubj
46	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 more	cop
47	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	36 get	obj
48	than	than	SCONJ	_	51 say	mark
49	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	51 say	nsubj
50	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 say	aux
51	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 more	advcl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	36 get	punct
53	”	"	PUNCT	_	36 get	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	get in a quote	to-infinitive		the bread		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bread=Stimulus
3	fill in a quote	to-infinitive		honour's mouths		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient
4	is in a quote	present	that		more property	tree rules
5	say speech: assert in a quote	can	the man = man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	honour in a quote		your			nom honour «state transitive»: poss=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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