English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, sentence 47

“Why,” they say, “matter enough!

Who acts: people · What happens: say · 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 (people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7439:240): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 matter	punct
2	Why	why	INTJ	_	9 matter	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 matter	parataxis
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 matter	punct
9	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 matter	amod
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 matter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	people						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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