English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 14
“But you can't, if they ain't come,” said the girl.
Who acts: crusts, girl · What happens: not come, say · 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 (crusts, girl), 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 | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 ca | cc |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 ca | nsubj |
| 4 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | ccomp |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 ca | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 come | punct |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 come | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 come | nsubj |
| 9 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 come | aux |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 come | advmod |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ca | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ca | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ca | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 girl | det |
| 16 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not come a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | crusts = crust | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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