More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 5
Jubal, seeing such a nice carriage, thought something, and did not like to say No, and said Yes, and pointed up the tree; and they told him to come down immediately, as there was a young lady in search of him.
Who acts: Jubal, nice carriage, horses · What happens: see, think, not like, say, point up, tell · To what, where: nice carriage, something, tree, Jubal, young lady, search · 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 (Jubal, nice carriage, horses), 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 | Jubal | Jubal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 seeing | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Jubal | punct |
| 3 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 said | advcl |
| 4 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 carriage | det:predet |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 carriage | det |
| 6 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 carriage | amod |
| 7 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seeing | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 carriage | acl |
| 10 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 thought | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 like | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 like | cc |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 like | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 like | advmod |
| 15 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 seeing | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 say | mark |
| 17 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 like | xcomp |
| 18 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 17 say | discourse |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 said | cc |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 21 said | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 pointed | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 pointed | cc |
| 25 | pointed | point | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 said | ccomp |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 pointed | compound:prt |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 tree | det |
| 28 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pointed | obj |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 told | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 told | cc |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 told | nsubj |
| 32 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 said | conj |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 told | iobj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 come | mark |
| 35 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 told | xcomp |
| 36 | down | down | ADV | _ | 35 come | advmod |
| 37 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 35 come | advmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 lady | punct |
| 39 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 41 was | mark |
| 40 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 41 was | expl |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 lady | cop |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 lady | det |
| 43 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 lady | amod |
| 44 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 come | obl |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 search | case |
| 46 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 lady | nmod |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 him | case |
| 48 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 search | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | Jubal | such nice carriage | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer carriage=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | participle | such nice carriage not said here | something | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot something=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not like | past · do-support | Jubal not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert not said to happen | to-infinitive | Jubal not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | point up | participle | the tree | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient | |||||
| 7 | tell speech: assert | past | horses = horse | Jubal | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 8 | come down not said to happen | to-infinitive | horses = horse not said here | down, immediately property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 9 | is a | past | a young lady | search of Jubal | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | search | Jubal | nom search «act 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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