More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 88
So up he got, and thought he would go home and tell his mother she hadn't a fool for a son any more.
Who acts: yi, Mother · What happens: get, think, go, tell, have · To what, where: mother, fool · 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 (yi, Mother), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 got | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 thought | cc |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | advcl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 go | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 go | aux |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 thought | ccomp |
| 11 | home | home | ADV | _ | 10 go | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 tell | cc |
| 13 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 go | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 mother | nmod:poss |
| 15 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tell | obj |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 had | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 tell | ccomp |
| 18 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 fool | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 fool | det |
| 20 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 son | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 son | det |
| 23 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fool | nmod |
| 24 | any | any | ADV | _ | 25 more | advmod |
| 25 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 had | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | yi | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | yi not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go | would | yi | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | yi not said here | yi's mother | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | have | past | Mother | a fool | for a son | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fool=Patient |
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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