English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, sentence 28
“Why, lookye,” she said, “look at all that beautiful grass.
Who acts: woman · What happens: say, look · To what, where: lookye · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Three Sillies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 lookye | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lookye | punct |
| 4 | lookye | lookye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lookye | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 lookye | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 look | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 look | punct |
| 11 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 grass | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 grass | det |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 grass | det |
| 15 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 grass | amod |
| 16 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 look | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | woman | lookye | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | look in a quote | infinitive | at all beautiful grass | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at grass=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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