More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 75
And he told the landlord all about the wise woman and the coat o' clay.
Who acts: horse · What happens: tell · To what, where: landlord · 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 (horse), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 told | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 landlord | det |
| 5 | landlord | landlord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | obj |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 10 woman | advmod |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 woman | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 woman | det |
| 9 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 woman | amod |
| 10 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 coat | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 coat | det |
| 13 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 woman | conj |
| 14 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 16 clay | case |
| 15 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 16 clay | punct |
| 16 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 coat | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | horse | the landlord | about the wise woman and the coat of clay | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent landlord=Recipient about woman=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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