More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 9
And I thought once that your youngest brother put me in the wrong bed, when he put all those snakes to bite me all night long, until your second brother told me 'So it was to be,' and said, 'It is the same here,' but said you had none in your beds."
Who acts: I, youngest brother, London, second brother, bed, you · What happens: think, put, bite, tell, be, say · To what, where: me, wrong bed, snakes, none, beds · 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 (I, youngest brother, London, second brother), 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 thought | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 thought | advmod |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 put | mark |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 brother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 brother | amod |
| 8 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | nsubj |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | advcl |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 put | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 bed | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bed | det |
| 13 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bed | amod |
| 14 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 put | punct |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 put | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 put | nsubj |
| 18 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | conj |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 snakes | det:predet |
| 20 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 21 snakes | det |
| 21 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 put | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 bite | mark |
| 23 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 put | advcl |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 bite | obj |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 night | det |
| 26 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bite | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 bite | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 told | punct |
| 29 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 33 told | mark |
| 30 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 brother | nmod:poss |
| 31 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 32 brother | amod |
| 32 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 told | nsubj |
| 33 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | parataxis |
| 34 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 told | iobj |
| 35 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 40 be | punct |
| 36 | So | so | ADV | _ | 40 be | advmod |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 be | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 be | cop |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 be | mark |
| 40 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 told | ccomp |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 be | punct |
| 42 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 40 be | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 said | cc |
| 44 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 told | conj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 same | punct |
| 46 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 50 same | punct |
| 47 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 same | nsubj |
| 48 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 50 same | cop |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 same | det |
| 50 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 said | ccomp |
| 51 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 50 same | advmod |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 ' | punct |
| 53 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 50 same | punct |
| 54 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 55 said | cc |
| 55 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | conj |
| 56 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 57 had | nsubj |
| 57 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 55 said | ccomp |
| 58 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 57 had | obj |
| 59 | in | in | ADP | _ | 61 beds | case |
| 60 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 61 beds | nmod:poss |
| 61 | beds | bed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 58 none | nmod |
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
| 63 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | I | once property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | put | past | your youngest brother | me | the wrong bed | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme in bed=Destination | |||
| 3 | put | past | London | all snakes | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent snake=Goal | ||||
| 4 | bite | to-infinitive | London not said here | me | night | long property | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past | your second brother | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | is not said to happen | past | bed | be property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | say speech: assert | past | your second brother not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | is | present | bed | here | same property | tree rules | |||
| 9 | say speech: assert | past | I not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 10 | have | past | you | none | your beds | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=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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