More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 116
And the oven said, "I've no room, ask the baker," and the baker hid her behind the oven.
Who acts: oven, baker · What happens: say, ask, hide · To what, where: baker, oven · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (oven, baker), 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 | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 oven | det |
| 3 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 've | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 've | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 've | nsubj |
| 8 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 ask | advcl |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 room | det |
| 10 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 've | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ask | punct |
| 12 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 baker | det |
| 14 | baker | baker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ask | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ask | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 ask | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 hid | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 baker | det |
| 19 | baker | baker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hid | nsubj |
| 20 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 hid | obj |
| 22 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 24 oven | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 oven | det |
| 24 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hid | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the oven | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | infinitive | the baker | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent baker=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | hide | past | the baker | oven | the oven | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Patient behind oven=Location |
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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