More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 41
"I'll come and fetch thee when I've told my mother," said the fool, and he gave her his lucky penny and went on.
Who acts: fool, husband · What happens: come, fetch, tell, say, give, go on · To what, where: thee, mother, lucky penny · 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 (fool, husband), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 come | nsubj |
| 3 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 fetch | cc |
| 6 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 come | conj |
| 7 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 fetch | obj |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 told | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 told | nsubj |
| 10 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 told | aux |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 fetch | advcl |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 mother | nmod:poss |
| 13 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 told | iobj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 fool | det |
| 18 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 gave | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 gave | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 gave | nsubj |
| 22 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | parataxis |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 gave | iobj |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 penny | nmod:poss |
| 25 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 penny | amod |
| 26 | penny | penny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gave | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 went | cc |
| 28 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 gave | conj |
| 29 | on | on | ADV | _ | 28 went | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | future | the fool = fool | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fetch in a quote | infinitive | the fool = fool not said here | thee | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present · perfect | the fool = fool | my mother | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the fool | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | give | past | husband | husband's lucky penny | Mother | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient penny=Theme | |||
| 6 | go on | past | husband not said here | vn function-105.2.1 «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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