English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 8

I dare say they've come again now.”

Who acts: I, crusts · What happens: say, come · 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 (I, crusts), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 say	nsubj
2	dare	dare	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 say	aux
3	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 come	nsubj
5	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
6	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 say	ccomp
7	again	again	ADV	_	6 come	advmod
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 come	advmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	dare	I						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come	present · perfect	crusts = crust				again; now		vn escape-51.1-1 «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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