More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 100
"'Every peat make t'other burn, Every spit make t'other turn, Every pot make t'other play, Till I come from church this good Yuleday,'
Who acts: peat, spit, t'other, pot, red calf · What happens: make, turn, play, come · To what, where: t'other burn, t'other, church
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peat, spit, t'other, pot), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | punct |
| 3 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 peat | det |
| 4 | peat | peat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 make | nsubj |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | t'other | t'other | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 burn | compound |
| 7 | burn | burn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 make | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 make | punct |
| 9 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 spit | det |
| 10 | spit | spit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 make | nsubj |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 make | conj |
| 12 | t'other | t'other | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 make | obj |
| 13 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 make | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 make | punct |
| 15 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 pot | det |
| 16 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 make | nsubj |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 turn | conj |
| 18 | t'other | t'other | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 make | obj |
| 19 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 make | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 come | punct |
| 21 | Till | till | SCONJ | _ | 23 come | mark |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 come | nsubj |
| 23 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 make | conj |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 church | case |
| 25 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 come | obl |
| 26 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 Yuleday | nsubj |
| 27 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Yuleday | amod |
| 28 | Yuleday | Yuleday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 come | parataxis |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | punct |
| 30 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | present | every peat | t'other burn | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset burn=Product | ||||
| 2 | make in a quote | infinitive | every spit | t'other | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | turn in a quote | infinitive | t'other not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | make in a quote | infinitive | every pot | t'other | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | play in a quote | infinitive | t'other not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | come in a quote | present | the red calf = calf | church | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from church=Initial_Location |
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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