English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring, sentence 8
“Don't be downhearted, my man,” said the Baron.
Who acts: Baron · What happens: not be, say · 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 (Baron), 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 downhearted | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 downhearted | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 downhearted | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 downhearted | cop |
| 5 | downhearted | downhearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 man | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 man | nmod:poss |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 downhearted | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 downhearted | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 downhearted | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Baron | det |
| 13 | Baron | Baron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | infinitive · do-support | downhearted property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Baron | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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