English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 111
“Is that Solomon?” she says, pretending to be afeard.
Who acts: Solomon · What happens: be, say, pretend · To what, where: Solomon · 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 (Solomon), 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 | _ | 4 Solomon | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Solomon | cop |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 4 Solomon | mark |
| 4 | Solomon | Solomon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 says | ccomp |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 Solomon | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Solomon | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 says | nsubj |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pretending | punct |
| 10 | pretending | pretend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 says | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 afeard | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 afeard | cop |
| 13 | afeard | afeard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 pretending | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Solomon | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | present | Solomon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | pretend | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | afeard property | tree rules |
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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