English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 55

“All right,” that says, and law! how that twirled that's tail.

Who acts: that · What happens: say, twirl, be · To what, where: 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 (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	_	3 right	punct
2	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 right	det
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 says	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 says	nsubj
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 law	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 law	cc
10	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	ccomp
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 law	punct
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 twirled	advmod
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 twirled	nsubj
14	twirled	twirl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 says	advcl
15	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 tail	det
16	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 tail	cop
17	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 twirled	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	that		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	twirl	past	that		vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme
3	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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