Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 68
"I didn't get a tayspoonful of my last tumbler," says another.
Who acts: I · What happens: not get, say · To what, where: tayspoonful, another · 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 (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 get | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 get | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 get | advmod |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 says | ccomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tayspoonful | det |
| 7 | tayspoonful | tayspoonful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 get | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 tumbler | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 tumbler | nmod:poss |
| 10 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tumbler | amod |
| 11 | tumbler | tumbler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tayspoonful | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 14 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 says | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get in a quote | past · do-support | I | a tayspoonful of my last tumbler | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tayspoonful=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | another | 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: «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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