English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 57
“Now there's the flax,” says he, “and if that ain't spun up this night, off goes your head.”
Who acts: flax, off · What happens: be, say, not spin up, go · To what, where: husband, head · 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 (flax, off), 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 | _ | 9 says | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 's | advmod |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 's | expl |
| 4 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 says | ccomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 flax | det |
| 6 | flax | flax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 's | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 's | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 's | punct |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 spun | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 he | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 spun | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 spun | cc |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 spun | mark |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 spun | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 spun | aux:pass |
| 17 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 spun | advmod |
| 18 | spun | spin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 says | ccomp |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 spun | compound:prt |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 night | det |
| 21 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spun | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 goes | punct |
| 23 | off | off | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 goes | nsubj |
| 24 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 spun | conj |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 head | nmod:poss |
| 26 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 goes | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 goes | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | the flax | there | now | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | not spin up a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · passive | husband | night | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: subject=Result | ||||
| 4 | go in a quote | present | off | your head | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=Theme |
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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