More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 107

So off they all went to the Wise Woman, and told her about it, and she looked long in the pot and the Book again, and then she nodded her head.

Who acts: faicks, Woman · What happens: go, tell, look, nod · To what, where: Woman, head · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (faicks, Woman), 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	_	2 off	advmod
2	off	off	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 went	nsubj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 went	advmod
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 Woman	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Woman	det
8	Wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Woman	amod
9	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 told	cc
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	iobj
14	about	about	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 looked	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 looked	cc
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 looked	nsubj
19	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
20	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 looked	advmod
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 pot	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 pot	det
23	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 looked	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 Book	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Book	det
26	Book	Book	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 pot	conj
27	again	again	ADV	_	19 looked	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 nodded	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 nodded	cc
30	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 nodded	advmod
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 nodded	nsubj
32	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 head	nmod:poss
34	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 nodded	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	faicks = faick				to the Wise Woman; off property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to woman=Initial_Location
2	tell speech: assert	past	faicks = faick not said here		Woman		about Moon	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient about it=Topic
3	look	past	Woman			again	in the pot and the Book; long property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in pot=Theme
4	nod	past	Woman	Woman's head		then		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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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