More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 3

So when she got home she told Tom to fetch the straw, but he wouldn't and, beg as she might, he wouldn't till she borrowed him a cart rope.

Who acts: farmer, Tom · What happens: get, tell, fetch, not beg, not borrow · To what, where: Tom, straw, man · 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 (farmer, Tom), 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	So	so	ADV	_	7 told	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 got	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 told	advcl
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 got	advmod
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 told	nsubj
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 told	iobj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 fetch	mark
10	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 told	xcomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 straw	det
12	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fetch	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 beg	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 beg	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 beg	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 beg	aux
17	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 beg	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 beg	cc
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 and	punct
20	beg	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 told	conj
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 might	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 might	nsubj
23	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 beg	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 borrowed	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 borrowed	aux
27	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 borrowed	advmod
28	till	till	SCONJ	_	30 borrowed	mark
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 borrowed	nsubj
30	borrowed	borrow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 told	ccomp
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 borrowed	obj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 rope	det
33	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 rope	compound
34	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 borrowed	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	get	past	farmer			home property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	tell speech: assert	past	farmer		Tom		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent tom=Recipient clause=Topic
3	fetch not said to happen	to-infinitive	farmer not said here	the straw			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent straw=Theme
4	not beg speech: request	would	Tom				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
5	not borrow	would	Tom	man			tree rules

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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