English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 13
“Well, come again, or not come again,” said the woman “I'll have one for supper.”
Who acts: woman · What happens: come, not come, say, have · To what, where: one · 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 (woman), 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 come | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 come | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 come | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 come | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 come | cc |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 come | advmod |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 come | conj |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 come | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 woman | det |
| 15 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 have | nsubj |
| 18 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 have | aux |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 have | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 supper | case |
| 22 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 one | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | infinitive | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not come in a quote | infinitive | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | have in a quote | future | the woman = woman | one | for supper | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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