English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 48
“You don't know that,” that said, and twirled that's tail round.
Who acts: You, that · What happens: not know, say, twirl, be · To what, where: that, tail · 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 (You, that), 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 | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 know | advmod |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 know | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 twirled | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 twirled | cc |
| 13 | twirled | twirl | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 tail | det |
| 15 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 tail | cop |
| 16 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 twirled | obj |
| 17 | round | round | ADV | _ | 13 twirled | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | You | that | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | that | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | twirl | past | round property | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | that tail | 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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