More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 86
Then she went on a little bit farther, and came to an apple tree, so loaded with fruit that its branches were breaking down, and the tree said, "Little girl, little girl, help me shake my fruit.
Who acts: cow, branches, tree · What happens: go, come, load, break down, say, help · To what, where: little bit, apple tree, fruit, tree · 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 (cow, branches, tree), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 bit | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bit | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bit | amod |
| 7 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 went | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 came | cc |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 tree | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 tree | det |
| 14 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tree | compound |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 loaded | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 loaded | advmod |
| 18 | loaded | load | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 came | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 fruit | case |
| 20 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 loaded | obl |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 breaking | mark |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 branches | nmod:poss |
| 23 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 breaking | nsubj |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 breaking | aux |
| 25 | breaking | break | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 fruit | acl |
| 26 | down | down | ADP | _ | 25 breaking | compound:prt |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 said | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 said | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 tree | det |
| 30 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 said | nsubj |
| 31 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 girl | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 girl | punct |
| 34 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 girl | amod |
| 35 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 said | ccomp |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 girl | punct |
| 37 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 girl | amod |
| 38 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 girl | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 help | punct |
| 40 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 said | ccomp |
| 41 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 help | obj |
| 42 | shake | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 help | xcomp |
| 43 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 fruit | nmod:poss |
| 44 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 shake | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | cow | a little bit | then | far property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on bit=Location | ||
| 2 | come | past | a apple tree | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tree=Initial_Location | |||||
| 3 | load | participle | with fruit | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with fruit=Theme | |||||
| 4 | break down | past · progressive | fruit's branches | fruit not said here | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | the tree | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | help in a quote | infinitive | the tree = tree | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | shake in a quote | infinitive | the tree = tree not said here | my fruit | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent fruit=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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