English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well, sentence 10
“Aged father,” says she, “I am going to seek my fortune.”
Who acts: Aged father · What happens: say, go, seek · To what, where: princess, fortune · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Three Heads of the Well. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Aged father), 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 | _ | 3 father | punct |
| 2 | Aged | aged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 father | amod |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 says | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 father | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 father | punct |
| 6 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 says | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 going | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 going | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 going | nsubj |
| 11 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 going | aux |
| 12 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 says | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 seek | mark |
| 14 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 going | xcomp |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 16 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seek | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 going | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Aged father | princess | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | present · progressive | Aged father = father | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | seek in a quote | to-infinitive | Aged father = father not said here | my fortune | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme |
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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