More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 8
I was nice and safe under the stone, Tom, and could do no harm; but thou let me out thyself, and thou can't put me back again!
Who acts: I, thou · What happens: be, do, let out, not put back · To what, where: stone, harm, thyself, me
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 (I, thou), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 nice | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 nice | cop |
| 3 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 safe | cc |
| 5 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 nice | conj |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 8 stone | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stone | det |
| 8 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 safe | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Tom | punct |
| 10 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 stone | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 do | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 do | cc |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 do | aux |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 nice | conj |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 harm | det |
| 16 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 do | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 let | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 let | cc |
| 19 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 let | nsubj |
| 20 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 nice | parataxis |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 let | obj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 let | compound:prt |
| 23 | thyself | thyself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch | 20 let | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 put | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 put | cc |
| 26 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 29 put | nsubj |
| 27 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 put | aux |
| 28 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 put | advmod |
| 29 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 nice | conj |
| 30 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 put | obj |
| 31 | back | back | ADV | _ | 29 put | advmod |
| 32 | again | again | ADV | _ | 29 put | advmod |
| 33 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 nice | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | nice property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | I not said here | the stone | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do | could | I not said here | no harm | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | let out | past | thou | thyself | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient thyself=Theme | |||
| 5 | not put back | can | thou | me | again | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent i=Goal |
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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