More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 52

Well, granny used to say how long before her time the Moon herself was once dead and buried in the marshes, and as she used to tell me, I'll tell you all about it.

Who acts: Moon, goodwife, I · What happens: use, say, be, bury, tell · To what, where: granny, marshes, me, you · 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 (Moon, goodwife, I), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	3 granny	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	granny	granny	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 granny	acl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 say	mark
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 used	advcl
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 long	advmod
8	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 dead	advmod
9	before	before	ADP	_	11 time	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 time	nmod:poss
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dead	obl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Moon	det
13	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 dead	nsubj
14	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 Moon	nmod
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 dead	cop
16	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	17 dead	advmod
17	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 say	ccomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 buried	cc
19	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 dead	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 marshes	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 marshes	det
22	marshes	marsh	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 buried	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 used	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 used	cc
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 used	mark
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 used	nsubj
27	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 dead	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 tell	mark
29	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 used	xcomp
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 tell	iobj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 tell	punct
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 tell	nsubj
33	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 tell	aux
34	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 tell	conj
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 tell	iobj
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 you	nmod:unmarked
37	about	about	ADP	_	38 it	case
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 tell	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 granny	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	participle		granny not said here					vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the Moon goodwife				time	dead, long, once property	tree rules
4	bury	participle	the Moon goodwife not said here			the marshes			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in marsh=Destination
5	use	past	goodwife						vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	goodwife not said here		me				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
7	tell speech: assert	future	I		you			about Moon	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient about it=Topic

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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