More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 106

The three sisters said to Rushen Coatie: "Eh, lassie, if you had seen the bonny fine lady in church to-day, that the young prince fell in love with!"

Who acts: three sisters, Rushen Coatie, young prince · What happens: say, see, fall · To what, where: Eh, Rushen Coatie, bonny fine lady, church, love · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (three sisters, Rushen Coatie, young prince), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sisters	det
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 sisters	nummod
3	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 Coatie	case
6	Rushen	Rushen	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Coatie	compound
7	Coatie	Coatie	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 Eh	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 Eh	punct
10	Eh	Eh	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lassie	punct
12	lassie	lassie	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Eh	appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 seen	punct
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 seen	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 seen	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 seen	aux
17	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 said	ccomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 lady	det
19	bonny	bonny	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lady	compound
20	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 lady	amod
21	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 seen	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 church	case
23	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lady	nmod
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 day	case
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 to	punct
26	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 seen	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 fell	punct
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 fell	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 prince	det
30	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 prince	amod
31	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fell	nsubj
32	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 seen	advcl
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 love	case
34	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fell	obl
35	with	with	ADP	_	32 fell	obl
36	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 seen	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: express	past	the three sisters	Eh	Rushen Coatie			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to coatie=Recipient clause=Topic
2	see a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past · perfect	Rushen Coatie = coatie	the bonny fine lady		church	day	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lady=Stimulus
3	fall in a quote	past	the young prince			love		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=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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