English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 73

“Noo, that ain't,” says he, and he twirled his tail harder, and away he flew.

Who acts: Noo, Mark · What happens: say, twirl, fly · To what, where: Mark, 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, Mark), 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	parataxis
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	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 twirled	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 flew	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 flew	cc
20	away	away	ADV	_	22 flew	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 flew	nsubj
22	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 twirled	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Noo	Mark		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic
2	twirl	past	Mark	Mark's tail	hard property	vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent tail=Material
3	fly	past	Mark		away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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