More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 2
Says the Bull to her: "Here you must stay till I go and fight the Old One.
Who acts: lady, I · What happens: say, stay, go, fight · To what, where: Bull, lady, Old One · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, I), 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 | Says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Bull | det |
| 3 | Bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Says | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 Bull | nmod |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 stay | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 stay | punct |
| 8 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 stay | advmod |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 stay | nsubj |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 stay | aux |
| 11 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Says | conj |
| 12 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 14 go | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 go | nsubj |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 stay | advcl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 fight | cc |
| 16 | fight | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 go | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 One | det |
| 18 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 One | amod |
| 19 | One | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fight | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the Bull | lady | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bull=Topic to she=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | stay in a quote | must | lady | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | present | I | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | fight in a quote | present | I not said here | the Old One | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Co-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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