More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 66

Now the old man had a little dog named Turpie; and one night the Hobyahs came and said, "Hobyah!

Who acts: old man, Hobyahs · What happens: have, name, come, say · To what, where: little dog, Hobyah · 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 (old man, Hobyahs), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 had	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 dog	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dog	amod
8	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
9	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 dog	acl
10	Turpie	Turpie	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 named	xcomp
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 came	cc
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 night	nummod
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl:unmarked
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Hobyahs	det
16	Hobyahs	Hobyahs	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	parataxis
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 came	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Hobyah	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 Hobyah	punct
22	Hobyah	Hobyah	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 said	obl
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	have	past	the old man	a little dog	now	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient
2	name	participle		a little dog not said here		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	come	past	the Hobyahs		night	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	the Hobyahs not said here	Hobyah		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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