More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 48
And as they went to lay the foundation-stone, Gobborn Seer said to Jack, "Can't you shorten the way for me?"
Who acts: others, Gobborn Seer, Jack · What happens: go, lay, say, not shorten · To what, where: foundation stone, Jack, way · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others, Gobborn Seer, Jack), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 went | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 lay | mark |
| 6 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 went | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 stone | det |
| 8 | foundation | foundation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stone | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 foundation | punct |
| 10 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lay | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
| 12 | Gobborn | Gobborn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Seer | compound |
| 13 | Seer | seer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Jack | case |
| 16 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 shorten | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 shorten | punct |
| 19 | Ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 shorten | aux |
| 20 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 shorten | advmod |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 shorten | nsubj |
| 22 | shorten | shorten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 way | det |
| 24 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 shorten | obj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 me | case |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 shorten | obl |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 22 shorten | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 shorten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | others = other | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lay | to-infinitive | others = other not said here | the foundation stone | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Result | ||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | Gobborn Seer | Jack | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to jack=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | not shorten in a quote | can | Jack | the way | for Gobborn Seer = seer | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent way=Patient |
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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