More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 106
"Tree of mine, tree of mine, Have you seen a girl With a willy-willy wag, and a long-tailed bag, Who's stole my money, all I had?"
Who acts: Tree, Witch · What happens: see, tail, steal, have · To what, where: girl, tailed bag
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tree, Witch), 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 | _ | 2 Tree | punct |
| 2 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 seen | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 mine | case |
| 4 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 Tree | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 tree | punct |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Tree | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 mine | case |
| 8 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 tree | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tree | punct |
| 10 | Have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 seen | aux |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 seen | nsubj |
| 12 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 girl | det |
| 14 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seen | obj |
| 15 | With | with | ADP | _ | 20 wag | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 wag | det |
| 17 | willy | willy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 wag | amod |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 willy | punct |
| 19 | willy | willy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 wag | amod |
| 20 | wag | wag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 girl | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 bag | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 bag | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 bag | det |
| 24 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 tailed | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 long | punct |
| 26 | tailed | tail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 bag | amod |
| 27 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seen | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 stole | punct |
| 29 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 stole | nsubj |
| 30 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 stole | aux:pass |
| 31 | stole | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 bag | acl:relcl |
| 32 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 money | nmod:poss |
| 33 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 stole | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 had | punct |
| 35 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 had | advmod |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 had | nsubj |
| 37 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 seen | parataxis |
| 38 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 37 had | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present · perfect | Tree of mine | a girl | with a willy willy wag; a tailed bag obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | tail in a quote | participle | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | steal in a quote | present · passive | a tailed bag | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary money=Theme | |||||
| 4 | have in a quote | past | Witch | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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