More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 107
So they went home together, and he never wanted to buy a pottle o' brains again, for his wife had enough for both.
Who acts: brains, M'appen, wife · What happens: go, not want, buy, have · To what, where: o brains
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brains, M'appen, wife), 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 went | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wanted | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 wanted | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 wanted | nsubj |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 wanted | advmod |
| 10 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 buy | mark |
| 12 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wanted | xcomp |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 o | det |
| 14 | pottle | pottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 o | compound |
| 15 | o | o | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 brains | compound |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 o | punct |
| 17 | brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 buy | obj |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 buy | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 had | punct |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 had | mark |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 wife | nmod:poss |
| 22 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 had | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 wanted | conj |
| 24 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 23 had | advmod |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 both | case |
| 26 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 had | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | brains = brain | home, together property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not want | past | M'appen | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | buy not said to happen | to-infinitive | M'appen not said here | o brains | again | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Theme | |||
| 4 | have | past | M'appen's wife | for both; enough property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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