English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 87
“A-well, is that Methusalem?” says she.
Who acts: Methusalem · What happens: be, say · To what, where: Methusalem, Noo · 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 (Methusalem), 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 | _ | 11 says | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Methusalem | det |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 A | punct |
| 4 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 8 Methusalem | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 well | punct |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 Methusalem | cop |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 Methusalem | mark |
| 8 | Methusalem | Methusalem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 says | nsubj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 Methusalem | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Methusalem | punct |
| 11 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 says | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | a Methusalem | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | present | a Methusalem | Noo | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
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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