More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 114
Folk told him that he could get everything he liked from the wise woman that lived on the top o' the hill, and dealt in potions and herbs and spells and things, and could tell thee! all as 'd come to thee or thy folk.
Who acts: Folk, fool, wise woman · What happens: tell, get, like, live, deal, come · To what, where: fool, everything, top o, potions, thee · 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 (Folk, fool, wise woman), 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 | Folk | Folk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | iobj |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 get | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 get | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 get | aux |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 told | ccomp |
| 8 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 get | obj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 liked | nsubj |
| 10 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 everything | acl:relcl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 woman | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 woman | det |
| 13 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 woman | amod |
| 14 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 liked | obl |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 lived | nsubj |
| 16 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 woman | acl:relcl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 o | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 o | det |
| 19 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 o | amod |
| 20 | o | o | NOUN | _ | 16 lived | obl |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 hill | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 hill | det |
| 23 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 o | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 dealt | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 dealt | cc |
| 26 | dealt | deal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 told | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 potions | case |
| 28 | potions | potion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 dealt | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 herbs | cc |
| 30 | herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 potions | conj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 spells | cc |
| 32 | spells | spell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 potions | conj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 things | cc |
| 34 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 potions | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 tell | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 tell | cc |
| 37 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 tell | aux |
| 38 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 told | conj |
| 39 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 38 tell | iobj |
| 40 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 38 tell | punct |
| 41 | all | all | ADV | _ | 44 come | advmod |
| 42 | as | as | ADV | _ | 44 come | advmod |
| 43 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 come | aux |
| 44 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 tell | ccomp |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 thee | case |
| 46 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 44 come | obl |
| 47 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 49 folk | cc |
| 48 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 49 folk | nmod:poss |
| 49 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 thee | conj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Folk | fool | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | get | could | fool | everything | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | like | past | fool | from the wise woman | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 4 | live | past | the wise woman | the top o and the hill | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on o=Location | ||||
| 5 | deal | participle | Folk not said here | potions and herbs and spells and things | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | could | Folk not said here | thee | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 7 | come | would | thee | all property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to thou=Initial_Location |
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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