More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 37
And when he got in, his mother only looked at him and smiled as if to say she could leave him with a quiet mind since he had got brains enough now to look after himself--and then she died.
Who acts: folk, mother · What happens: get in, look, smile, say, leave, get · To what, where: folk, brains · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (folk, mother), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 looked | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 got | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 looked | advcl |
| 5 | in | in | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looked | nsubj |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 looked | advmod |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 looked | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 smiled | cc |
| 14 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 looked | conj |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 say | mark |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 say | mark |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 say | mark |
| 18 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 smiled | ccomp |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 leave | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 leave | aux |
| 21 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 say | ccomp |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 leave | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 mind | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 mind | det |
| 25 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 mind | amod |
| 26 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 leave | obl |
| 27 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 30 got | mark |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 got | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 got | aux |
| 30 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 leave | advcl |
| 31 | brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 got | obj |
| 32 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 30 got | advmod |
| 33 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 got | advmod |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 look | mark |
| 35 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 got | advcl |
| 36 | after | after | ADP | _ | 37 himself | case |
| 37 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 35 look | obl |
| 38 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 42 died | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 died | cc |
| 40 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 42 died | advmod |
| 41 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 died | nsubj |
| 42 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 looked | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in | past | folk | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | look | past | folk's mother | at folk | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | smile | past | folk's mother not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | to-infinitive | folk's mother not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | leave | could | mother | folk | with a quiet mind | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with mind=Theme | |||
| 6 | get | past · perfect | folk | brains | now | enough property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brain=Stimulus | ||
| 7 | look | to-infinitive | folk not said here | after folk | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | die | past | mother | then | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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