More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 72
Hout, tout," quoth the wife, and made the heckle flee at it.
Who acts: you, heckle · What happens: hout, tout, quoth, make, flee · To what, where: wife, Bannock · 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 (you, heckle), 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 | Hout | hout | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 tout | punct |
| 3 | tout | tout | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Hout | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 quoth | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 quoth | punct |
| 6 | quoth | quoth | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Hout | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wife | det |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 quoth | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 made | cc |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Hout | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 heckle | det |
| 13 | heckle | heckle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 flee | nsubj |
| 14 | flee | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 made | ccomp |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 flee | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hout | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hout | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | tout speech: other | infinitive | you not said here | vn overstate-37.12 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | quoth in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | the wife | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make in a quote | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | flee in a quote | present | the heckle | Bannock | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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