More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 109
In the morning they took her into a room, the finest of all, and gave her a plum, telling her not to break it till she was in the greatest strait mortal could be in, and that would get her out of it.
Who acts: daughters, long, that · What happens: take, give, tell, not break, be, get · To what, where: long, room, plum, mortal · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughters, long, that), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 morning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 took | obj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 room | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 room | det |
| 9 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 finest | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 finest | det |
| 12 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 took | advcl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 all | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 finest | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gave | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 gave | cc |
| 17 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 gave | iobj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 plum | det |
| 20 | plum | plum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gave | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 telling | punct |
| 22 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 gave | advcl |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 telling | iobj |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 break | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 break | mark |
| 26 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 telling | xcomp |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 break | obj |
| 28 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 38 in | mark |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 in | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 in | cop |
| 31 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 38 in | mark |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 mortal | det |
| 33 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 35 mortal | amod |
| 34 | strait | strait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 mortal | compound |
| 35 | mortal | mortal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 in | nsubj |
| 36 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 in | aux |
| 37 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 in | cop |
| 38 | in | in | ADV | _ | 26 break | advcl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 get | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 get | cc |
| 41 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 43 get | nsubj |
| 42 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 get | aux |
| 43 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 took | parataxis |
| 44 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 get | obj |
| 45 | out | out | ADP | _ | 47 it | case |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 it | case |
| 47 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 get | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | daughters = daughter | long | a room | morning | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme into room=Destination | ||
| 2 | give | past | daughters = daughter not said here | a plum | long | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient plum=Theme | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | gerund | daughters = daughter not said here | long | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | not break not said to happen | to-infinitive | daughters = daughter not said here | plum | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is | could · past | long | in property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | get | would | that | long | mortal | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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