More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 43
Then all the morning's work came back to the woodman, and he told his tale right out, from beginning to end, and as he told it the goodwife glowered and glowered, and when he had made an end of it she burst out, "Thou bee'st but a fool, Jan, thou bee'st but a fool; and I wish the pudding were at thy nose, I do indeed."
Who acts: work, goodwife, end, Thou, pudding, morning · What happens: come back, tell, begin, glower, make, burst out · To what, where: woodman, tale, nose · 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 (work, goodwife, end, Thou), 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 | 7 came | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 work | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 morning | det |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 work | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 morning | case |
| 6 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 came | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 woodman | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 woodman | det |
| 11 | woodman | woodman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 told | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 told | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 told | nsubj |
| 15 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 tale | nmod:poss |
| 17 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 told | obj |
| 18 | right | right | ADV | _ | 19 out | advmod |
| 19 | out | out | ADV | _ | 15 told | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 beginning | punct |
| 21 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 22 beginning | mark |
| 22 | beginning | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 told | advcl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 end | case |
| 24 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 beginning | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 told | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 told | cc |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 told | mark |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 told | nsubj |
| 29 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 told | obj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 goodwife | det |
| 32 | goodwife | goodwife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 glowered | nsubj |
| 33 | glowered | glower | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 told | ccomp |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 glowered | cc |
| 35 | glowered | glower | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 glowered | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 made | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 made | cc |
| 38 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 41 made | mark |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 made | nsubj |
| 40 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 made | aux |
| 41 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 47 burst | advcl |
| 42 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 end | det |
| 43 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 burst | nsubj |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 it | case |
| 45 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 end | nmod |
| 46 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 burst | nsubj |
| 47 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 told | parataxis |
| 48 | out | out | ADP | _ | 47 burst | compound:prt |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 bee'st | punct |
| 50 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 52 bee'st | punct |
| 51 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 52 bee'st | nsubj |
| 52 | bee'st | bee'st | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 burst | obl |
| 53 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 55 fool | cc |
| 54 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 55 fool | det |
| 55 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 bee'st | conj |
| 56 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 Jan | punct |
| 57 | Jan | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 52 bee'st | appos |
| 58 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 60 bee'st | punct |
| 59 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 60 bee'st | nsubj |
| 60 | bee'st | bee'st | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 Jan | appos |
| 61 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 63 fool | cc |
| 62 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 63 fool | det |
| 63 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 60 bee'st | conj |
| 64 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 67 wish | punct |
| 65 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 67 wish | cc |
| 66 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 67 wish | nsubj |
| 67 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 68 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 69 pudding | det |
| 69 | pudding | pudding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 73 nose | nsubj |
| 70 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 73 nose | cop |
| 71 | at | at | ADP | _ | 73 nose | case |
| 72 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 73 nose | nmod:poss |
| 73 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 67 wish | ccomp |
| 74 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 76 do | punct |
| 75 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 76 do | nsubj |
| 76 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 77 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 76 do | advmod |
| 78 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
| 79 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | the morning's work | the woodman | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to woodman=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | work | woodman's tale | out property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient | |||
| 3 | begin | gerund | work not said here | to end | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | work | tale | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | glower | past | the goodwife | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | glower | past | the goodwife not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | make | past · perfect | work | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | burst out | past | a end of tale | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | bee'st in a quote | Thou | tree rules | ||||||
| 10 | bee'st in a quote | thou | tree rules | ||||||
| 11 | wish in a quote | present | work | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 12 | is in a quote | past | the pudding | thy nose | tree rules | ||||
| 13 | do in a quote | present | work | indeed property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 14 | work | the morning | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 15 | tell | woodman | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=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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