More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 89

And when Rushen Coatie heard of it, she sate down and wept by its side, but the dead calf said:

Who acts: Rushen, dead calf · What happens: hear, sate down, weep, say · 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 (Rushen, dead calf), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 heard	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 heard	advmod
3	Rushen	Rushen	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 heard	nsubj
4	Coatie	Coatie	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Rushen	flat
5	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 heard	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sate	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sate	nsubj
10	sate	sate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 heard	conj
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 sate	compound:prt
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wept	cc
13	wept	weep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 sate	conj
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 side	case
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 side	nmod:poss
16	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wept	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 calf	det
20	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 calf	amod
21	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	nsubj
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	parataxis
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Rushen	of butcher	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus
2	sate down	infinitive	Rushen		vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Instrument
3	weep	participle	Rushen not said here	by butcher's side	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	the dead calf		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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