More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 57

"Just my own self too!" he answered cautiously; and with that they began to play together.

Who acts: boy, hair · What happens: answer, begin, play

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 (boy, hair), 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	_	5 self	punct
2	Just	just	ADV	_	5 self	advmod
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 self	nmod:poss
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 self	amod
5	self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 answered	ccomp
6	too	too	ADV	_	5 self	advmod
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 self	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 self	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 answered	nsubj
10	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	cautiously	cautiously	ADV	_	10 answered	advmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 began	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 began	cc
14	with	with	SCONJ	_	17 began	mark
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 began	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 began	nsubj
17	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 answered	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 play	mark
19	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 began	xcomp
20	together	together	ADV	_	19 play	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	boy	cautiously property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	begin	past	hair		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	play	to-infinitive	hair not said here	together property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: 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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