More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 111

The next night the Hobyahs took down the bag and knocked on the top of it, and said "Look me! look me!" and when they opened the bag--the big dog jumped out and ate them all up; so there are no Hobyahs now.

Who acts: Hobyahs, big dog · What happens: take down, knock, say, look, open, jump out · To what, where: bag, top, me, 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, big dog), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 night	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 night	amod
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obl:unmarked
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Hobyahs	det
5	Hobyahs	hobyah	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 took	nsubj
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 took	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bag	det
9	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 knocked	cc
11	knocked	knock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 took	conj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 top	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 top	det
14	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 knocked	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 top	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 took	parataxis
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 Look	punct
21	Look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 said	ccomp
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 Look	obj
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	21 Look	punct
24	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 Look	conj
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 look	obj
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	21 Look	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 Look	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 jumped	cc
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 opened	advmod
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 opened	nsubj
31	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 jumped	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 bag	det
33	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 opened	obj
34	--	--	PUNCT	_	31 opened	punct
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 dog	det
36	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 dog	amod
37	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 jumped	nsubj
38	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 said	conj
39	out	out	ADP	_	38 jumped	compound:prt
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 ate	cc
41	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 jumped	conj
42	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 ate	obj
43	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	42 them	nmod:unmarked
44	up	up	ADP	_	41 ate	compound:prt
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 are	punct
46	so	so	ADV	_	48 are	advmod
47	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	48 are	expl
48	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 took	conj
49	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	50 Hobyahs	det
50	Hobyahs	hobyah	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 are	nsubj
51	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	48 are	advmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	take down	past	the Hobyahs	the bag		night	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme
2	knock	participle	the Hobyahs not said here		the top of bag		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on top=Location
3	say speech: express	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	look in a quote	infinitive		me			vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Attribute
5	look in a quote	infinitive		me			vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Attribute
6	open	past	Hobyahs = hobyah	the bag			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bag=Theme
7	jump out	past	the big dog				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	eat up	past	the big dog not said here	Hobyahs = hobyah			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
9	does	present	no Hobyahs		there	now	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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