English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well, sentence 40
“Then,” said he, “what have you in your bag and bottle?”
Who acts: man, you · What happens: say, have · To what, where: bag · 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 (man, 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Then | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Then | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 “ | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 have | obj |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 “ | ccomp |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 have | nsubj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 bag | case |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 bag | nmod:poss |
| 14 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 bottle | cc |
| 16 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bag | conj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | man | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | you | your bag and bottle | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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