More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 19

Now the lass was taken to York to be hanged; she was brought out on the scaffold, and the hangman said, "Now, lass, thou must hang by the neck till thou be'st dead."

Who acts: hangman, thou · What happens: take, hange, bring out, say, hang · To what, where: lass, York, scaffold · 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 (hangman, thou), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 taken	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lass	det
3	lass	lass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 taken	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 taken	aux:pass
5	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 York	case
7	York	York	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 taken	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	10 hanged	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 hanged	aux:pass
10	hanged	hange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 taken	advcl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 brought	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 brought	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 brought	aux:pass
14	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 hanged	conj
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 brought	compound:prt
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 scaffold	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 scaffold	det
18	scaffold	scaffold	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 brought	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 said	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 hangman	det
22	hangman	hangman	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 said	nsubj
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 taken	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 hang	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 hang	punct
26	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 hang	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Now	punct
28	lass	lass	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hang	vocative
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 lass	punct
30	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	32 hang	nsubj
31	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 hang	aux
32	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 said	ccomp
33	by	by	ADP	_	35 neck	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 neck	det
35	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hang	obl
36	till	till	ADP	_	38 be'st	case
37	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	38 be'st	nsubj
38	be'st	be'st	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hang	obl
39	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 be'st	amod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 hang	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 hang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past · passive		the lass	York		now		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to york=Destination
2	hange	to-infinitive · passive							tree rules
3	bring out	past · passive		York		the scaffold			vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
4	say speech: assert	past	the hangman						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	hang in a quote	must	thou				till be'st; now	by the neck; lass vocative	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by neck=Location

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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