English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 11

“Not one of 'em?” says the mother.

Who acts: one · What happens: say · To what, where: mother · 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 (one), 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 says	punct
2	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 one	advmod
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 says	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 'em	case
5	'em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 one	nmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 one	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 one	punct
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mother	det
10	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	one of 'em	the mother					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mother=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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