More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 110

When he asked her how she came there and she told him, he put the dog in the bag and took the little girl to his home.

Who acts: man, girl · What happens: ask, come, tell, put, take · To what, where: girl, man, dog, bag, little girl, home · 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 (man, girl), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 asked	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asked	nsubj
3	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 put	advcl
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asked	iobj
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 came	advmod
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asked	advcl
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 came	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 told	cc
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	nsubj
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asked	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	iobj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 asked	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 put	nsubj
15	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 dog	det
17	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 put	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 bag	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bag	det
20	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 put	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 took	cc
22	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 put	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 girl	det
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 girl	amod
25	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 took	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 home	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 home	nmod:poss
28	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 took	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	man		girl		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	come	past	girl			there	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	girl		man		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	put	past	man	the dog		the bag	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dog=Theme in bag=Destination
5	take	past	man not said here	the little girl		man's home	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent girl=Theme to home=Destination

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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