More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 90
"Take me up, bone by bone, And put me beneath yon grey stone; When there is aught you want Tell it me, and that I'll grant."
Who acts: you, dead calf · What happens: take up, put, be, want, tell, grant · To what, where: dead calf, yon grey stone, aught, stone · 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 (you, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 2 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 21 aught | compound |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Take | obj |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 Take | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bone | punct |
| 6 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Take | obl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 bone | case |
| 8 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bone | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 put | punct |
| 10 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 put | cc |
| 11 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Take | conj |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 put | obj |
| 13 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 16 stone | case |
| 14 | yon | yon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stone | compound |
| 15 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 stone | amod |
| 16 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 put | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 is | punct |
| 18 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 is | advmod |
| 19 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 20 is | expl |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 aught | cop |
| 21 | aught | aught | PRON | PronType=Ind | 23 want | nmod:desc |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 want | nsubj |
| 23 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | Tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 want | xcomp |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 Tell | obj |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 Tell | iobj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 grant | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 grant | cc |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 grant | mark |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 grant | nsubj |
| 31 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 grant | aux |
| 32 | grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 want | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 want | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take up in a quote | infinitive | the dead calf = calf | bone by bone obl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | ||||
| 2 | put in a quote | infinitive | the dead calf = calf | yon grey stone | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme beneath stone=Destination | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | aught | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | want in a quote | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert not said to happen, in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | stone | the dead calf = calf | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient it=Topic | |||
| 6 | grant in a quote | future | the dead calf = calf | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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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