English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 94
“Well, my dear,” says he, “I don't see but what you'll have your skeins ready to-morrow night as well, and as I reckon I shan't have to kill you, I'll have supper in here to-night.”
Who acts: I, you · What happens: say, not see, have, reckon, not have, kill · To what, where: king, skeins, you, supper · 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, you), 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 | _ | 8 says | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 8 says | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 dear | nmod:poss |
| 5 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Well | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 says | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 see | nsubj |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 see | aux |
| 14 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 see | advmod |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 says | ccomp |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 have | cc |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 have | obj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 have | nsubj |
| 19 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 have | aux |
| 20 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 see | conj |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 skeins | nmod:poss |
| 22 | skeins | skein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 have | obj |
| 23 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 night | case |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 ready | fixed |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 to | punct |
| 26 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 night | compound |
| 27 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 have | obl |
| 28 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 20 have | advmod |
| 29 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 as | fixed |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 have | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 have | cc |
| 32 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 34 reckon | mark |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 reckon | nsubj |
| 34 | reckon | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 have | advcl |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 have | nsubj |
| 36 | sha | sha | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 have | aux |
| 37 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 have | advmod |
| 38 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 see | conj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 kill | mark |
| 40 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 have | xcomp |
| 41 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 kill | obj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 have | punct |
| 43 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 have | nsubj |
| 44 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 have | aux |
| 45 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 see | conj |
| 46 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 have | obj |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 here | case |
| 48 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 45 have | advmod |
| 49 | to | to | ADP | _ | 51 night | case |
| 50 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 49 to | punct |
| 51 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 here | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
| 53 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | king | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not see in a quote | present · do-support | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | future | you | your skeins | night | tree rules | |||
| 4 | reckon in a quote | present | I | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not have in a quote | I | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | kill in a quote | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 7 | have in a quote | future | I | supper | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Patient |
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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