More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 104

I reckon they _did_ talk! their tongues wagged at home, and at the inn, and in the garth.

Who acts: I, folks · What happens: reckon, do, wag · To what, where: garth, _ talk, tongues, home

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, folks), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 reckon	nsubj
2	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 did	nsubj
4	_	_	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 reckon	ccomp
6	_	_	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 talk	amod
7	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 talk	punct
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 tongues	nmod:poss
10	tongues	tongue	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 talk	conj
11	wagged	wag	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 tongues	acl
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 home	case
13	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wagged	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 inn	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 inn	cc
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 inn	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 inn	det
18	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 talk	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 garth	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 garth	cc
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 garth	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 garth	det
23	garth	garth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reckon	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reckon	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	reckon	present	I		the garth	vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	do	past	folks = folk	_ talk and folks's tongues and the inn		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talk=Eventuality
3	wag	participle		folks's tongues not said here	home	vn crane-40.3.2 «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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