More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 82

Then the calf told her to put her finger into its right ear, and she found there some cheese, and made a right good meal of the bread and cheese.

Who acts: calf, wife · What happens: tell, put, find, make · To what, where: wife, finger, right ear, cheese, right good meal · 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 (calf, wife), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 told	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 calf	det
3	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 put	mark
7	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	xcomp
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 finger	nmod:poss
9	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 put	obj
10	into	into	ADP	_	13 ear	case
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 ear	nmod:poss
12	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ear	amod
13	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 put	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 found	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 found	cc
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 found	nsubj
17	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
18	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 found	advmod
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 cheese	det
20	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 found	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 made	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 made	cc
23	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 meal	det
25	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 meal	amod
26	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 meal	amod
27	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 made	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 bread	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 bread	det
30	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 meal	nmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 cheese	cc
32	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 bread	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the calf		wife		then	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	put not said to happen	to-infinitive	the calf not said here	wife's finger		calf's right ear		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent finger=Goal
3	find	past	wife	some cheese		there		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheese=Topic
4	make	past	the calf not said here	a right good meal of the bread and cheese				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset meal=Product

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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