English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick, sentence 53
“Now, lass,” he exclaimed, “thou art the richest, and I shall marry thee.”
Who acts: Jack · What happens: exclaim, marry · To what, where: lass, thee · 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 | _ | 8 exclaimed | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 exclaimed | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | lass | lass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 exclaimed | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lass | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 lass | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 8 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 art | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 art | punct |
| 11 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 art | nsubj |
| 12 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 exclaimed | ccomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 richest | det |
| 14 | richest | rich | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 art | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 marry | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 marry | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 marry | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 marry | aux |
| 19 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 art | conj |
| 20 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 marry | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 exclaimed | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | past | Jack | lass | now | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | marry in a quote | shall | Jack | thee | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Patient |
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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