More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 115

So he told his mother, and asked her if he could seek the wise woman and buy a pottle o' brains.

Who acts: fool · What happens: tell, ask, seek, buy · To what, where: mother, Folk, wise woman, o brains · 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 (fool), 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 told	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mother	nmod:poss
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	iobj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 asked	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 asked	cc
8	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 asked	iobj
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 seek	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 seek	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 seek	aux
13	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 asked	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 woman	det
15	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 woman	amod
16	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seek	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 buy	cc
18	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 seek	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 o	det
20	pottle	pottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 o	compound
21	o	o	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 brains	compound
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 o	punct
23	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 buy	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	fool		fool's mother	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient
2	ask speech: ask	past	fool not said here		Folk	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	seek a condition, not said to happen	could	fool	the wise woman		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme
4	buy	infinitive	fool not said here	o brains		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=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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