More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 13
At last Tom, seeing them unable to lift it, "Stand away, you fools," said he, and taking the tree, set it on one end and laid it in the cart. "
Who acts: last Tom, besides · What happens: see, lift, stand away, say, take, set · To what, where: besides, tree, last Tom, one end, cart · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last Tom, besides), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 Tom | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Tom | amod |
| 3 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 said | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tom | punct |
| 5 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 Tom | acl |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 seeing | obj |
| 7 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 seeing | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 lift | mark |
| 9 | lift | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 unable | xcomp |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 lift | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Stand | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Stand | punct |
| 13 | Stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 lift | conj |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 Stand | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tom | punct |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 said | nsubj |
| 17 | fools | fool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 you | nmod:unmarked |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 you | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 you | punct |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 said | nsubj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 taking | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 taking | cc |
| 24 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 said | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 tree | det |
| 26 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 taking | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 set | punct |
| 28 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 taking | advcl |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 set | obj |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 end | case |
| 31 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 end | nummod |
| 32 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 set | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 laid | cc |
| 34 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 said | conj |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 laid | obj |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 cart | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 cart | det |
| 38 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 laid | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 34 laid | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | last Tom not said here | besides = beside | unable property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | lift | to-infinitive | besides = beside not said here | tree | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stand away in a quote | infinitive | besides = beside not said here | away property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | last Tom | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | take | gerund | the tree | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme | |||||
| 6 | set | infinitive | tree | on one end | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on end=Destination | ||||
| 7 | lay | past | tree | the cart | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in cart=Destination |
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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