More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 80

Just then, who should come in but a little red calf, and said to her: "Put your finger into my left ear."

What happens: come in, say, put · To what, where: wife, finger, left ear · 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: 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	Just	just	ADV	_	6 come	advmod
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 come	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 come	nsubj
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	in	in	ADV	_	6 come	advmod
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 calf	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 calf	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 calf	amod
11	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 calf	amod
12	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 come	parataxis
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 her	case
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	obl
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 Put	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 Put	punct
20	Put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	conj
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 finger	nmod:poss
22	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Put	obj
23	into	into	ADP	_	26 ear	case
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 ear	nmod:poss
25	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 ear	amod
26	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Put	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	come in	should				then	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past		wife			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
3	put in a quote	infinitive	your finger		my left ear		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent finger=Goal

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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