More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 107
And when the Hobyahs came to their home they hung up the bag with the little girl in it, and every Hobyah knocked on the top of the bag and said, "Look me! look me!"
Who acts: Hobyahs, Hobyah · What happens: come, hang up, knock, say, look · To what, where: home, bag, top, Hobyahs · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hobyahs, Hobyah), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hung | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 came | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Hobyahs | det |
| 4 | Hobyahs | Hobyahs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 hung | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 home | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 home | nmod:poss |
| 8 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 hung | nsubj |
| 10 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 hung | compound:prt |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bag | det |
| 13 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hung | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 girl | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 girl | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 girl | amod |
| 17 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hung | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 hung | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 knocked | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 knocked | cc |
| 22 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 Hobyah | det |
| 23 | Hobyah | Hobyah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 knocked | nsubj |
| 24 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 hung | conj |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 top | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 top | det |
| 27 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 knocked | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 bag | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 bag | det |
| 30 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 top | nmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 said | cc |
| 32 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 hung | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 Look | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 Look | punct |
| 35 | Look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 said | ccomp |
| 36 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 Look | obj |
| 37 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 35 Look | punct |
| 38 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 Look | conj |
| 39 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 look | obj |
| 40 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 hung | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 hung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the Hobyahs | Hobyahs's home | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to home=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | hang up | past | Hobyahs = hobyah | the bag | bag | with the little girl | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent bag=Patient with girl=Instrument | ||
| 3 | knock | past | every Hobyah | the top of the bag | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on top=Location | ||||
| 4 | say speech: express | past | Hobyahs = hobyah not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | look in a quote | infinitive | Hobyahs = hobyah | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | look in a quote | infinitive | Hobyahs = hobyah | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=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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