More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 7
But when she reached the oven, and the bread said, "Little girl, little girl, take us out.
Who acts: sister, bread · What happens: reach, say, take out · To what, where: oven, us · 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 (sister, bread), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 reached | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 oven | det |
| 6 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bread | det |
| 10 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 girl | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 girl | punct |
| 14 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 girl | amod |
| 15 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 girl | punct |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 girl | amod |
| 18 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 girl | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 take | punct |
| 20 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 21 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 take | obj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 take | compound:prt |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | sister | the oven | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent oven=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the bread | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | take out in a quote | infinitive | us | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
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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