More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 21

The tree said, "Yes, mother; she's gone down that way."

Who acts: tree · What happens: say, go down · To what, where: way · 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 (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tree	det
2	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Yes	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Yes	punct
6	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 said	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mother	punct
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Yes	conj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 gone	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 gone	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 gone	aux
12	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 said	ccomp
13	down	down	ADP	_	12 gone	compound:prt
14	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 way	det
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gone	obl:unmarked
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 gone	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the tree						tree rules
2	go down in a quote	present · passive	tree	that way					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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