More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 71
And then he bade her give the men back their savings.
Who acts: Feathers · What happens: give back, save · To what, where: men, savings
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 (Feathers), 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 | _ | 6 give | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 bade | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bade | nsubj |
| 4 | bade | bade | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 give | aux |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bade | obj |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 men | det |
| 8 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 give | obj |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 give | advmod |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 savings | nmod:poss |
| 11 | savings | savings | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 6 give | iobj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give back | past | the men | Feathers's savings | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent savings=Recipient man=Theme | ||||
| 2 | save | Feathers = feather | nom savings «possession transitive»: poss=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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