More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 133

While sitting, one of them said, "Well, all the King's army was not able to take us, but I fear an old woman with a rope's end would be too much for us now."

Who acts: one, army, I, old woman · What happens: sit, say, not be, take, fear, be · To what, where: us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, army, I, old woman), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	2 sitting	mark
2	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 said	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 sitting	punct
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 said	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 one	nmod
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 able	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 able	punct
10	Well	well	INTJ	_	19 able	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Well	punct
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 army	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 King	det
14	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 army	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 King	case
16	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 able	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 able	cop
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 able	advmod
19	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	ccomp
20	to	to	PART	_	21 take	mark
21	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 able	xcomp
22	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 take	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 fear	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 fear	cc
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 fear	nsubj
26	fear	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 woman	det
28	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 woman	amod
29	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 much	nsubj
30	with	with	ADP	_	34 end	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 rope	det
32	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 end	nmod:poss
33	's	's	PART	_	32 rope	case
34	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 woman	nmod
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 much	aux
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 much	cop
37	too	too	ADV	_	38 much	advmod
38	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 fear	ccomp
39	for	for	ADP	_	40 us	case
40	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 much	obl
41	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 fear	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	sit	gerund	one of giants not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	one of giants				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not is in a quote	past	the King's army			able property	tree rules
4	take in a quote	to-infinitive	the King's army not said here	us			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument we=Destination
5	fear in a quote	present	I		now		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is in a quote	would	a old woman with a rope's end			for us; much 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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