English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick, sentence 48
“Stand aside, lass;” said Jack to her, speaking roughly.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: stand, say, speak · To what, where: lass, cudgel · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack), 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 | _ | 2 Stand | punct |
| 2 | Stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 2 Stand | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lass | punct |
| 5 | lass | lass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Stand | obl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stand | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stand | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 her | case |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 speaking | punct |
| 13 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 14 | roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 13 speaking | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand in a quote | infinitive | lass | aside property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Jack | cudgel | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | gerund | Jack not said here | roughly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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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