More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 66

And the girl said: "They were ready to fall on any one; they'd have beat me if you had not come by."

Who acts: girl, blows, you · What happens: say, be, fall, have, beat, not come by · To what, where: girl · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, blows, you), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 ready	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 ready	punct
7	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 ready	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 ready	cop
9	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 fall	mark
11	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 ready	xcomp
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 one	case
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	14 one	det
14	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fall	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 have	nsubj
17	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 have	aux
18	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
19	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 have	xcomp
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 beat	obj
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 come	mark
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 come	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 come	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 come	advmod
25	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 beat	advcl
26	by	by	ADP	_	25 come	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the girl			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	past	blows = blow		ready property	tree rules
3	fall in a quote	to-infinitive	blows = blow not said here		on any one	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on one=Location
4	have in a quote	would	blows = blow			tree rules
5	beat in a quote	infinitive	blows = blow not said here	the girl = girl		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location i=Theme
6	not come by a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past · perfect	you			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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