Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 66

"This damp grass is very different from our warm room," says one.

Who acts: damp grass, different · What happens: be, say · To what, where: warm room, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Comrades. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (damp grass, different), 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	_	7 different	punct
2	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 grass	det
3	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grass	amod
4	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 different	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 different	cop
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 different	advmod
7	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 says	nsubj
8	from	from	ADP	_	11 room	case
9	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 room	nmod:poss
10	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 room	amod
11	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 different	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 different	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 different	punct
14	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 says	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	this damp grass			our warm room		different property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	different	one					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent one=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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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