English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 29
“All right,” says the woman; for she thought what a grand marriage that was.
Who acts: All, woman · What happens: say, think · 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 (All, 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 | _ | 6 says | punct |
| 2 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 says | nsubj |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 All | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 All | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 All | punct |
| 6 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 woman | det |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 says | nsubj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 thought | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 thought | nsubj |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 says | conj |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 thought | ccomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 marriage | det |
| 15 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 marriage | amod |
| 16 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 what | nsubj |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 was | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 marriage | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | All | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | woman | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: 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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