More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 61
And down she sets by him, and he told her all about the wise woman and the pig, and his mother and the riddles, and that he was alone in the world.
Who acts: art, pig · What happens: set, tell, be · To what, where: art, world · 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 (art, pig), 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 | _ | 4 sets | cc |
| 2 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 sets | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sets | nsubj |
| 4 | sets | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sets | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 told | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 told | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 told | nsubj |
| 10 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sets | parataxis |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 told | iobj |
| 12 | all | all | ADV | _ | 16 woman | advmod |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 16 woman | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 woman | det |
| 15 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 woman | amod |
| 16 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 told | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 pig | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 pig | det |
| 19 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 woman | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 mother | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 mother | cc |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 mother | nmod:poss |
| 23 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 woman | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 riddles | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 riddles | det |
| 26 | riddles | riddle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 mother | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 alone | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 alone | cc |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 alone | mark |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 alone | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 alone | cop |
| 32 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 told | conj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 world | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 world | det |
| 35 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 alone | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sets | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | present | art | by pig; down property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by he=Destination | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | pig | art | about the wise woman and the pig and pig's mother and the riddles | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient about woman=Topic | |||
| 3 | is | past | pig | the world | alone property | tree rules |
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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