More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 21

It was then a quarter to one, when he called out, "Swan, swan, carry me over, for the name of the old Griffin of the Greenwood."

Who acts: watch, boy · What happens: be, call out, carry over, name · To what, where: quarter, one, Swan, boy, old Griffin · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (watch, boy), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 quarter	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 quarter	cop
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 quarter	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 quarter	det
5	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 one	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 quarter	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 called	punct
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 called	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 called	nsubj
11	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 quarter	conj
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 called	compound:prt
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Swan	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 Swan	punct
15	Swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 called	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 swan	punct
17	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Swan	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 carry	punct
19	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 quarter	conj
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 carry	obj
21	over	over	ADP	_	19 carry	compound:prt
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 name	punct
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 name	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 name	det
25	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 carry	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 Griffin	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Griffin	det
28	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 Griffin	amod
29	Griffin	Griffin	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 name	nmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 Greenwood	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Greenwood	det
32	Greenwood	greenwood	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 Griffin	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 quarter	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 quarter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	watch	a quarter	one	then		tree rules
2	call out speech: assert	past	boy	Swan and swan				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	carry over in a quote	infinitive	watch not said here	boy			for the name of the old Griffin of the Greenwood	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	name in a quote			the old Griffin of the Greenwood				nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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