English Fairy Tales, The Old Woman and Her Pig, sentence 2
“What,” said she, “shall I do with this little sixpence?
Who acts: I · What happens: say, do · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Old Woman and Her Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 said | nsubj:outer |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
| 9 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 do | aux |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 do | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 sixpence | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 sixpence | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sixpence | amod |
| 15 | sixpence | sixpence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 do | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | do in a quote | shall | I | with this little sixpence | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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