English Fairy Tales, The Rose-tree, sentence 53
“If you will put the millstone round my neck,” said the bird.
Who acts: you, bird · What happens: put, say · To what, where: millstone · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Rose-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, bird), 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 | _ | 5 put | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 put | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 put | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | aux |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 millstone | det |
| 7 | millstone | millstone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obj |
| 8 | round | round | ADP | _ | 10 neck | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 neck | nmod:poss |
| 10 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bird | det |
| 15 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | you | the millstone | round my neck | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent millstone=Goal | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the bird | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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