More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 97
And the red calf said to her: "Do not sit there weeping, but go, put on these clothes, and above all, put on this pair of glass slippers, and go your way to church."
Who acts: red calf, there · What happens: say, not sit, go, put, weep · To what, where: shank, weeping, clothes, pair, way, church · 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 (red calf, there), 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 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 calf | det |
| 3 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 calf | amod |
| 4 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 sit | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 sit | punct |
| 10 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 sit | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 sit | advmod |
| 12 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 13 | there | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Typo=Yes | 14 weeping | nmod:poss |
| 14 | weeping | weeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sit | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 go | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 go | cc |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 sit | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 put | punct |
| 19 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 sit | conj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 clothes | case |
| 21 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 22 clothes | det |
| 22 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 19 put | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 put | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 put | cc |
| 25 | above | above | ADP | _ | 26 all | case |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 put | advcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 all | punct |
| 28 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 sit | conj |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 pair | case |
| 30 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 pair | det |
| 31 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 put | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 slippers | case |
| 33 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 slippers | compound |
| 34 | slippers | slipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 pair | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 go | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 go | cc |
| 37 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 sit | conj |
| 38 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 way | nmod:poss |
| 39 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 go | obl |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 church | case |
| 41 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 go | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 sit | punct |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 sit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the red calf | shank | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not sit in a quote | infinitive · do-support | there's weeping | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location weeping=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | put in a quote | infinitive | this clothes | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on clothes=Destination | |||||
| 5 | put in a quote | infinitive | this pair of glass slippers | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on pair=Destination | |||||
| 6 | go in a quote | infinitive | your way | church | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | weep in a quote | there = they | nom weeping «act intransitive»: poss=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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