English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 71
“Noo, that ain't,” says he, and he twirled his tail.
Who acts: Noo, Ned · What happens: say, twirl · To what, where: Ned, 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 (Noo, Ned), 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 | _ | 2 Noo | punct |
| 2 | Noo | Noo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 says | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ai | punct |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 ai | nsubj |
| 5 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Vrnc Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Noo | acl:relcl |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 ai | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Noo | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Noo | 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 | 9 says | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 twirled | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 twirled | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 twirled | nsubj |
| 14 | twirled | twirl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 says | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 tail | nmod:poss |
| 16 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 twirled | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Noo | Ned | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic | ||||
| 2 | twirl | past | Ned | Ned's tail | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent tail=Material |
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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