More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 15
_"Grannie, grannie, come tell us the story of the wee bannock."
Who acts: _ · What happens: come, tell · To what, where: story, 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 (_), 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 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 come | nsubj |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Grannie | punct |
| 3 | Grannie | Grannie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 _ | appos |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 grannie | punct |
| 5 | grannie | grannie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Grannie | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 _ | punct |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 come | xcomp |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 tell | iobj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 story | det |
| 11 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tell | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 bannock | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bannock | det |
| 14 | wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bannock | amod |
| 15 | bannock | bannock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 story | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 come | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | infinitive | _ | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | _ not said here | the story of the wee bannock | us | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient story=Topic |
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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