More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 16

Oh, a stick for my mother's fire," said Tom; and espying a tree bigger than was in the cart, he laid it on his shoulders and went home with it as fast as the cart and six horses could draw it.

Who acts: stick, Tom, six horses, mother · What happens: say, espy, be, lay, go, draw · To what, where: tree, shoulders · 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 (stick, Tom, six horses, mother), 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 stick	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 stick	det
4	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
5	for	for	ADP	_	9 fire	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mother	nmod:poss
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fire	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 mother	case
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stick	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stick	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 stick	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 espying	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 espying	cc
16	espying	espy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 said	advcl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 tree	det
18	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 espying	obj
19	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 espying	xcomp
20	than	than	ADP	_	24 cart	case
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 cart	cop
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 cart	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 cart	det
24	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bigger	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 laid	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 laid	nsubj
27	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 laid	obj
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 shoulders	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 shoulders	nmod:poss
31	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 laid	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 went	cc
33	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
34	home	home	ADV	_	33 went	advmod
35	with	with	ADP	_	36 it	case
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 went	obl
37	as	as	ADV	_	38 fast	advmod
38	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 went	advmod
39	as	as	ADP	_	41 cart	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 cart	det
41	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 went	obl
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 draw	cc
43	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	44 horses	nummod
44	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 draw	nsubj
45	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 draw	aux
46	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 went	conj
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 draw	obj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	a stick for my mother's fire				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	espy in a quote	gerund	a stick for my mother's fire not said here	a tree		big property	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus
3	is in a quote	past				than the cart	tree rules
4	lay in a quote	past	Tom	tree	Tom's shoulders		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on shoulder=Destination
5	go in a quote	past	a stick for my mother's fire not said here			with stick; as the cart; fast, home property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with it=Beneficiary
6	draw in a quote	could	six horses	tree			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
7	fire		my mother				nom fire «event 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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