More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 37

"Aye, I have brought thy golden ball And come to set thee free, I have not come to see thee hung Upon this gallows-tree."

Who acts: hangman, thee · What happens: bring, come, set, not come, see, hang · To what, where: golden ball, thee, tree · 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, thee), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 brought	punct
2	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	6 brought	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Aye	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 brought	nsubj
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 brought	aux
6	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	9 ball	nmod:poss
8	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ball	amod
9	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brought	obj
10	And	and	CCONJ	_	11 come	cc
11	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 brought	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 set	mark
13	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 come	xcomp
14	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	13 set	obj
15	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 set	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 come	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 come	nsubj
18	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 come	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 come	advmod
20	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 brought	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 see	mark
22	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 come	advcl
23	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	24 hung	nsubj
24	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 see	ccomp
25	Upon	upon	ADP	_	29 tree	case
26	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 gallows	det
27	gallows	gallows	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 tree	nmod:poss
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 gallows	punct
29	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hung	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 brought	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bring in a quote	present · perfect	hangman	thy golden ball			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent ball=Theme
2	come in a quote	infinitive	hangman not said here				tree rules
3	set in a quote	to-infinitive	hangman not said here	thee		free property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient thou=Result
4	not come in a quote	present	hangman				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	see in a quote	to-infinitive	hangman not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	hang in a quote	past	thee		this gallows's tree		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon tree=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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