More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 131
Then he saw the king stand on the table and say, "Gather the bones!"
Who acts: farmer, you · What happens: see, say, gather · To what, where: king stand, table, bones · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (farmer, you), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 Gather | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stand | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stand | compound |
| 6 | stand | stand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 table | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 table | det |
| 9 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 say | cc |
| 11 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 saw | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Gather | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Gather | punct |
| 14 | Gather | gather | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bones | det |
| 16 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 Gather | obj |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 Gather | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Gather | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | farmer | the king stand | the table | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stand=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | say speech: express | infinitive | farmer not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | gather in a quote | imperative | you not said here | the bones | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=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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