More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 99

Tear down the hempstalks, eat up the old man and woman, and carry off the little girl!"

Who acts: Tear · What happens: eat up, carry off · To what, where: old man, little girl

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 (Tear), 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	Tear	tear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eat	nsubj
2	down	down	ADP	_	4 hempstalks	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hempstalks	det
4	hempstalks	hempstalk	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Tear	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 eat	punct
6	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 eat	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eat	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 woman	cc
12	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 man	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 carry	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 carry	cc
15	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 eat	conj
16	off	off	ADP	_	15 carry	compound:prt
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 girl	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 girl	amod
19	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 carry	obj
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 carry	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 carry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat up	present	Tear down the hempstalks	the old man and woman					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
2	carry off	infinitive	Tear down the hempstalks not said here	the little girl					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=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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