More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 98

But he only frowned and told her to be silent, while the servants laughed and said: "Tattercoats is happy in her rags, playing with the gooseherd, let her be--it is all she is fit for."

Who acts: king, servants, Tattercoats, horse, nurse · What happens: frown, tell, be, laugh, say, play · To what, where: horse, rags · 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 (king, servants, Tattercoats, horse), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 frowned	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 frowned	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 frowned	advmod
4	frowned	frown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 told	cc
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 frowned	conj
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	iobj
8	to	to	PART	_	10 silent	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 silent	cop
10	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 told	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 laughed	punct
12	while	while	SCONJ	_	15 laughed	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 servants	det
14	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 laughed	nsubj
15	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 told	parataxis
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 laughed	conj
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 happy	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 happy	punct
20	Tattercoats	tattercoat	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 happy	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 happy	cop
22	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 said	ccomp
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 rags	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 rags	nmod:poss
25	rags	rag	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 happy	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 playing	punct
27	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 said	ccomp
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 gooseherd	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 gooseherd	det
30	gooseherd	gooseherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 playing	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 let	punct
32	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	27 playing	parataxis
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 let	obj
34	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 let	xcomp
35	--	--	PUNCT	_	41 fit	punct
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 fit	nsubj
37	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 fit	cop
38	all	all	ADV	_	41 fit	advmod
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 fit	nsubj
40	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 fit	cop
41	fit	fit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 frowned	advcl
42	for	for	ADP	_	41 fit	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 frowned	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 frowned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	frown	past	king					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	king not said here		horse			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
3	is not said to happen	to-infinitive					silent property	tree rules
4	laugh	past	the servants					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	past	the servants not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	is in a quote	present	Tattercoats			horse's rags	happy property	tree rules
7	play in a quote	gerund					with the gooseherd	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with gooseherd=Theme
8	let in a quote	infinitive		horse				tree rules
9	be in a quote	infinitive	horse not said here					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	is in a quote	present	nurse				all, fit property	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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