More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 133
Arrange them," said the king; and they placed them all in their proper positions in the hide of the cow.
Who acts: bones · What happens: arrange, say, place · To what, where: bones, king, imps, proper positions · 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 (bones), 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 | Arrange | arrange | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | parataxis |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Arrange | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Arrange | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Arrange | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 placed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 placed | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 placed | nsubj |
| 11 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 placed | obj |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 positions | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 positions | nmod:poss |
| 16 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 positions | amod |
| 17 | positions | position | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 placed | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 hide | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hide | det |
| 20 | hide | hide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 positions | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 cow | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 cow | det |
| 23 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hide | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrange | infinitive | bones = bone | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Product | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the king | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | place in a quote | past | bones = bone | imps = imp | bones's proper positions in the hide of the cow | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in position=Destination |
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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