English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 52
That looked out of the corner of that's eyes, and that said: “I'll give you three guesses every night to guess my name, and if you haven't guessed it before the month's up you shall be mine.”
Who acts: That, I, you, my · What happens: look out, be, say, give, guess, not guess · To what, where: corner, three guesses, you, name, mine · 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 (That, I, you, my), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 corner | case |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 corner | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 corner | det |
| 6 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 eyes | case |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 eyes | nsubj |
| 9 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 eyes | cop |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 corner | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 give | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 give | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 give | nsubj |
| 18 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 give | aux |
| 19 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 give | iobj |
| 21 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 guesses | nummod |
| 22 | guesses | guess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 give | obj |
| 23 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 night | det |
| 24 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 give | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 guess | mark |
| 26 | guess | guess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 give | advcl |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 name | nmod:poss |
| 28 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 guess | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 guessed | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 guessed | cc |
| 31 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 35 guessed | mark |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 guessed | nsubj |
| 33 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 guessed | aux |
| 34 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 guessed | advmod |
| 35 | guessed | guess | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 looked | parataxis |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 guessed | obj |
| 37 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 45 mine | mark |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 month | det |
| 39 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 mine | nmod:poss |
| 40 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 39 month | case |
| 41 | up | up | ADP | _ | 45 mine | mark |
| 42 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 45 mine | nsubj |
| 43 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 mine | aux |
| 44 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 45 mine | cop |
| 45 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 guessed | xcomp |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
| 47 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look out | past | That | the corner | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | that | of eyes | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | that | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | give in a quote | future | I | three guesses | you | night | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient guess=Theme | ||
| 5 | guess in a quote | to-infinitive | I not said here | my name | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme | ||||
| 6 | not guess a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · perfect | you | name | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 7 | is a in a quote | shall | you | mine | month | tree rules | |||
| 8 | name in a quote | my | nom name «communication 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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