English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 10
So back she came and says she: “Noo, they ain't come again.”
Who acts: girl, crusts · What happens: come, say, not come · To what, where: girl, Noo · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Tom Tit Tot. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, crusts), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 back | advmod |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 says | cc |
| 6 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 says | obj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 Noo | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Noo | punct |
| 10 | Noo | Noo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 come | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 come | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 come | nsubj |
| 13 | ai | ai | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 come | aux |
| 14 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 come | advmod |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 says | ccomp |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 come | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | girl | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | girl not said here | girl | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not come in a quote | crusts = crust | Noo | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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