More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 72
"That was a rare game you had with them," said he, "but now you are going where there is plenty, leave them each their own."
Who acts: That, you, plenty · What happens: be, have, say, go, leave · To what, where: rare game, Feathers · 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 (That, you, plenty), 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 | _ | 6 game | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 game | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 game | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 game | det |
| 5 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 game | amod |
| 6 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 game | acl:relcl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 had | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 game | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 game | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 going | cc |
| 18 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 going | advmod |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 going | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 going | aux |
| 21 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 said | ccomp |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 is | advmod |
| 23 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 24 is | expl |
| 24 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 going | parataxis |
| 25 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 is | nsubj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 leave | punct |
| 27 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 going | conj |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 leave | obj |
| 29 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 own | nsubj |
| 30 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 own | nmod:poss |
| 31 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 leave | ccomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 going | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | That | a rare game | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | past | you | a rare game not said here | with Feathers = feather | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Patient | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | go in a quote | present · progressive | you | now | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | be in a quote | present | plenty | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | leave in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | Feathers = feather | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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