More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 32
And again she sang, and then she thought she saw her sister coming, then her uncle, then her aunt, then her cousin; but after this the hangman said, "I will stop no longer, thou 'rt making game of me.
Who acts: hangman, sister · What happens: sing, think, see, come, say, stop · To what, where: sister, game · 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, sister), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 sang | cc |
| 2 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 sang | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sang | nsubj |
| 4 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 thought | cc |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 thought | advmod |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 thought | nsubj |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sang | conj |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 thought | ccomp |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 sister | nmod:poss |
| 13 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | obj |
| 14 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 sister | acl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 uncle | punct |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 uncle | advmod |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 18 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sister | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 aunt | punct |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 aunt | advmod |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 aunt | nmod:poss |
| 22 | aunt | aunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sister | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 cousin | punct |
| 24 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 cousin | advmod |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 26 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sister | conj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 said | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 said | cc |
| 29 | after | after | ADP | _ | 32 hangman | case |
| 30 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 hangman | det |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 hangman | det |
| 32 | hangman | hangman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 said | obl |
| 33 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sang | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 stop | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 stop | punct |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 stop | nsubj |
| 37 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 stop | aux |
| 38 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 said | ccomp |
| 39 | no | no | ADV | _ | 40 longer | advmod |
| 40 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 38 stop | advmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 thou | punct |
| 42 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 38 stop | parataxis |
| 43 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 42 thou | punct |
| 44 | rt | Rt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 stop | parataxis |
| 45 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 stop | advcl |
| 46 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 making | obj |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 me | case |
| 48 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 46 game | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | hangman | again | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | hangman | then | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | hangman | hangman's sister and hangman's uncle and hangman's aunt and hangman's cousin | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sister=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | come | gerund | hangman's sister and hangman's uncle and hangman's aunt and hangman's cousin not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | hangman not said here | after this hangman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | stop in a quote | future | hangman | long property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | make in a quote | gerund | hangman not said here | game of me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset game=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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