More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 9
So she went on till she met the cow, and the cow said, "Little girl, little girl, milk me, milk me, do.
Who acts: girl, cow · What happens: go on, meet, say, do · To what, where: cow · 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 (girl, cow), 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 | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 7 met | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 met | nsubj |
| 7 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cow | det |
| 9 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 met | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cow | det |
| 13 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 girl | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 girl | punct |
| 17 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 girl | amod |
| 18 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 girl | punct |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 girl | amod |
| 21 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 girl | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 milk | punct |
| 23 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 girl | conj |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 milk | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 milk | punct |
| 26 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 girl | conj |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 milk | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 do | punct |
| 29 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | girl | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | meet | past | girl | the cow | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the cow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | do in a quote | infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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