More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 14
Go, get thee after thy legs," said the lad to the head, and he cast the head up the chimney too.
Who acts: you, lad · What happens: go, get, say, cast up · To what, where: thee, lad, head · 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 (you, lad), 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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 get | punct |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 4 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 get | obj |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 legs | case |
| 6 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 legs | nmod:poss |
| 7 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 get | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lad | det |
| 12 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 head | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 head | det |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lad | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 cast | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 cast | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 cast | nsubj |
| 19 | cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 head | det |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cast | obj |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 cast | compound:prt |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 chimney | det |
| 24 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cast | obl |
| 25 | too | too | ADV | _ | 19 cast | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | get | infinitive | you not said here | thee | after thy legs | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thou=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the lad | the head | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent lad=Topic to head=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | cast up in a quote | past | lad | the head | the chimney obl | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Product |
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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