More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 48

He hearkened with all his ears, and the sorry thing was saying words all mixed up with sobbing--

Who acts: whimpering, sorry thing · What happens: hearken, say, mix up · To what, where: words · 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 (whimpering, sorry thing), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hearkened	nsubj
2	hearkened	hearken	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 ears	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 ears	det:predet
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 ears	nmod:poss
6	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hearkened	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 saying	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 saying	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 thing	det
10	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 thing	amod
11	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 saying	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 saying	aux
13	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 hearkened	advcl
14	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 saying	obj
15	all	all	ADV	_	16 mixed	advmod
16	mixed	mix	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 saying	ccomp
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 mixed	compound:prt
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 sobbing	case
19	sobbing	sobbing	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 mixed	obl
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	2 hearkened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hearken	past	whimpering		with whimpering's ears	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past · progressive	the sorry thing	words		tree rules
3	mix up	past			with sobbing; all property	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with sobbing=Co-Patient

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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