More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 74

And she kept his house so clean and neat, and cooked his dinner so fine, that one night he says to her: "Lass, I'm thinking I like thee best of everything after all."

Who acts: st, long'st · What happens: keep, cook, say, think, like · To what, where: house, dinner, st, Lass, best · 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 (st, long'st), 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	_	3 kept	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kept	nsubj
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 house	nmod:poss
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	obj
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 clean	advmod
7	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 kept	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 neat	cc
9	neat	neat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 clean	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cooked	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cooked	cc
12	cooked	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 kept	conj
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 dinner	nmod:poss
14	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cooked	obj
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 fine	advmod
16	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cooked	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 says	punct
18	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 night	det
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 night	nummod
20	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 says	obl:unmarked
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 says	nsubj
22	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 kept	conj
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 her	case
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 says	obl
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 Lass	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 Lass	punct
27	Lass	lass	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 says	ccomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 thinking	punct
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 thinking	nsubj
30	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 thinking	aux
31	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 Lass	acl:relcl
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 like	nsubj
33	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 thinking	ccomp
34	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	35 best	nsubj
35	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	33 like	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 everything	case
37	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	35 best	obl
38	after	after	ADP	_	39 all	case
39	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 everything	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 kept	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	st	long'st's house			clean property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme
2	cook	past	st not said here	long'st's dinner				vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient
3	say speech: assert	present	long'st = long'		st	night		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
4	think speech: other in a quote	present · progressive	long'st = long'	Lass not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent lass=Attribute clause=Theme
5	like in a quote	present	long'st = long'	best				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot good=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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