More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 34

But now she saw her sweetheart coming through the crowd, and he held over his head in the air her own golden ball; so she said:

Who acts: hangman, sweetheart, father · What happens: see, come, hold, say · To what, where: sweetheart, crowd, 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 (hangman, sweetheart, father), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 saw	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 saw	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 said	advcl
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 sweetheart	nmod:poss
6	sweetheart	sweetheart	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obj
7	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 sweetheart	acl
8	through	through	ADP	_	10 crowd	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 crowd	det
10	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 coming	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 held	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 held	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 held	nsubj
14	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
15	over	over	ADP	_	17 head	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 head	nmod:poss
17	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 held	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 air	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 air	det
20	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 held	obl
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 ball	nmod:poss
22	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 ball	amod
23	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 ball	amod
24	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 air	nmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 said	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	28 said	advmod
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 said	nsubj
28	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	hangman	hangman's sweetheart		now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sweetheart=Stimulus
2	come	gerund	hangman's sweetheart not said here		the crowd			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through crowd=Initial_Location
3	hold	past	father		father's head		in the air hangman's own golden ball	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over head=Location
4	say speech: assert	past	hangman					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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