English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 51

“What's your pay?” says she.

Who acts: pay, your · What happens: be, say, pay · To what, where: thing · 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 (pay, your), 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	_	8 says	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 says	ccomp
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 What	cop
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 pay	nmod:poss
5	pay	pay	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 says	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	your pay		tree rules
2	say speech: ask	present		thing	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic
3	pay in a quote		your		nom pay «possession transitive»: poss=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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