More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 55

He took the children by the hand, Tears standing in their eye, And bade them straightway follow him, And look they did not cry; And two long miles he led them on, While they for food complain: "Stay here," quoth he, "I'll bring you bread, When I come back again."

Who acts: wretch, Tears, Children, two long miles, other · What happens: take, stand, bade, follow, look, not cry · To what, where: children, eye, wretch, bread, you · 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 (wretch, Tears, Children, two long miles), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 children	det
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 took	obj
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 hand	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hand	det
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Tears	punct
9	Tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hand	appos
10	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 Tears	acl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 eye	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 eye	nmod:poss
13	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 standing	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bade	punct
15	And	and	CCONJ	_	16 bade	cc
16	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 bade	obj
18	straightway	straightway	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bade	xcomp
19	follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	18 straightway	parataxis
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 follow	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 look	punct
22	And	and	CCONJ	_	23 look	cc
23	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 follow	conj
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 cry	nsubj
25	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 cry	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 cry	advmod
27	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 look	xcomp
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 led	punct
29	And	and	CCONJ	_	32 miles	cc
30	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 miles	nummod
31	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 miles	amod
32	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 led	nsubj
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 led	nsubj
34	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 led	obj
36	on	on	ADP	_	34 led	compound:prt
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 complain	punct
38	While	while	SCONJ	_	42 complain	mark
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 complain	nsubj
40	for	for	ADP	_	41 food	case
41	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 they	nmod
42	complain	complain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 led	parataxis
43	:	:	PUNCT	_	45 Stay	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	45 Stay	punct
45	Stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	42 complain	conj
46	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	45 Stay	advmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 quoth	punct
48	"	"	PUNCT	_	49 quoth	punct
49	quoth	quoth	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 Stay	conj
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 quoth	obj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 bring	punct
52	"	"	PUNCT	_	55 bring	punct
53	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	55 bring	nsubj
54	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 bring	aux
55	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 Stay	conj
56	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	55 bring	obj
57	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 bring	obj
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 come	punct
59	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	61 come	advmod
60	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	61 come	nsubj
61	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 Stay	conj
62	back	back	ADV	_	61 come	advmod
63	again	again	ADV	_	61 come	advmod
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct
65	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	wretch		the children			by the hand	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument child=Destination
2	stand	gerund	Tears not said here			Children's eye			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in eye=Location
3	bade	past	wretch not said here	Children = child				straightway property	tree rules
4	follow	infinitive		wretch					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	look	infinitive							tree rules
6	not cry speech: express	past · do-support	Children = child						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	lead on	past	two long miles	Children = child					vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
8	complain speech: other	present	Children = child						vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	stay in a quote	infinitive	Children = child not said here			here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	quoth	infinitive	Children = child not said here	wretch					tree rules
11	bring in a quote	future	the other = other	bread	you				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination bread=Theme
12	come back in a quote	present	the other = other				again		vn escape-51.1-1 «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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