English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, sentence 39

“Oh dear,” he says, “I do think trousers are the most awkwardest kind of clothes that ever were.

Who acts: gentleman, trousers · What happens: say, think, be · To what, where: awkwardest kind · 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 (gentleman, trousers), 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	_	3 dear	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	3 dear	discourse
3	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 says	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 dear	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 dear	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 says	nsubj
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 think	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 think	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 think	nsubj
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 think	aux
12	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 says	ccomp
13	trousers	trousers	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 kind	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 kind	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 kind	det
16	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	17 awkwardest	advmod
17	awkwardest	awkward	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 kind	amod
18	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 think	ccomp
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 clothes	case
20	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	18 kind	nmod
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 were	obj
22	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	23 were	advmod
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 clothes	acl:relcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	gentleman			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	think speech: other in a quote	present · do-support	gentleman			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present	trousers	the awkwardest kind	of clothes	tree rules

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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