More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 86

So he takes him up to the tents; and when they see 'em coming, the girls begin to laugh, and say, "Here is our Jubal coming with a young gentleman."

Who acts: harm, tents, 'em, girls · What happens: take up, see, come, begin, laugh, say · To what, where: gentleman, tents, 'em · 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 (harm, tents, 'em, girls), 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 takes	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 takes	nsubj
3	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 takes	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 takes	compound:prt
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 tents	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tents	det
8	tents	tent	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 takes	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 see	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 see	cc
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 see	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 see	nsubj
13	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 takes	parataxis
14	'em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 see	obj
15	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 see	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 begin	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 girls	det
18	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 begin	nsubj
19	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 see	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 laugh	mark
21	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 begin	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 say	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 say	cc
24	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 takes	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Here	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 Here	punct
27	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 say	ccomp
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 Here	cop
29	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 Jubal	nmod:poss
30	Jubal	jubal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Here	conj
31	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 Here	advcl
32	with	with	ADP	_	35 gentleman	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 gentleman	det
34	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 gentleman	amod
35	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 coming	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 takes	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 takes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take up	present	harm	gentleman	the tents		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to tent=Destination
2	see	present	tents = tent	'em = they			tree rules
3	come	gerund	'em = they not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	begin	present	the girls				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	laugh	to-infinitive	the girls not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	say speech: assert	infinitive					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	is in a quote	present				here property	tree rules
8	be in a quote						tree rules
9	come in a quote	gerund				with a young gentleman	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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