English Fairy Tales, Master of All Masters, sentence 5
“Master or mister, or whatever you please sir,” says she.
Who acts: you · What happens: sir, say · To what, where: whatever, girl · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Master of All Masters. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 Master | punct |
| 2 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 says | ccomp |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 mister | cc |
| 4 | mister | mister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Master | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sir | punct |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 sir | cc |
| 7 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 sir | obj |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 sir | nsubj |
| 9 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 10 sir | discourse |
| 10 | sir | sir | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Master | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Master | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 says | punct |
| 13 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 says | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sir in a quote | infinitive | you | whatever | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
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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