More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 3

So he went to the park-gate, but 't was shut; so he climbed the hedge, and when he got to the top of the hedge, an old woman rose up out of the dyke before him, and said, if he wanted to get the ball, he must sleep three nights in the house.

Who acts: he, t, old woman · What happens: go, be, climb, get, rise up, say · To what, where: park gate, hedge, dyke, ball, house · 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 (he, t, old woman), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	8 gate	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gate	det
6	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gate	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 park	punct
8	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 shut	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 shut	cc
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 shut	punct
12	t	t	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shut	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 shut	cop
14	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 went	advcl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 climbed	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	18 climbed	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 climbed	nsubj
18	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hedge	det
20	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 climbed	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 got	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 got	cc
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 got	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 got	nsubj
25	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 top	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 top	det
28	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 got	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 hedge	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 hedge	det
31	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 top	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 rose	punct
33	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 woman	det
34	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 woman	amod
35	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 rose	nsubj
36	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
37	up	up	ADP	_	36 rose	compound:prt
38	out	out	ADP	_	41 dyke	case
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 dyke	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 dyke	det
41	dyke	dyke	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 rose	obl
42	before	before	ADP	_	43 him	case
43	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 rose	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 said	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 said	cc
46	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 wanted	punct
48	if	if	SCONJ	_	50 wanted	mark
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 wanted	nsubj
50	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 said	ccomp
51	to	to	PART	_	52 get	mark
52	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 wanted	xcomp
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 ball	det
54	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 get	obj
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 sleep	punct
56	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 sleep	nsubj
57	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 sleep	aux
58	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 said	conj
59	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	60 nights	nummod
60	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 sleep	obl:unmarked
61	in	in	ADP	_	63 house	case
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 house	det
63	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 sleep	obl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	he		the park gate			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to gate=Initial_Location
2	is	past	t				shut property	tree rules
3	climb	past	he	the hedge				vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location hedge=Theme
4	get	past	he				to the top of the hedge result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to top=Result
5	rise up	past	a old woman		the dyke	before him = he		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out dyke=Location
6	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	want a condition, not said to happen	past	he					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
8	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	the ball				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ball=Stimulus
9	sleep	must	he		the house	night		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in house=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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