More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 91

Once on a time and twice on a time, and all times together as ever I heard tell of, there was a tiny lassie who would weep all day to have the stars in the sky to play with; she wouldn't have this, and she wouldn't have that, but it was always the stars she would have.

Who acts: I, tiny lassie, stars, lassie, star · What happens: hear, tell, be, weep, have, play · To what, where: stars, sky, this, that · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, tiny lassie, stars, lassie), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 time	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Once	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 twice	cc
6	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Once	conj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 time	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 time	det
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 twice	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 heard	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 heard	cc
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 times	det
13	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 heard	obl:unmarked
14	together	together	ADV	_	13 times	advmod
15	as	as	ADV	_	16 ever	advmod
16	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	14 together	advcl
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 heard	nsubj
18	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Once	parataxis
19	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 heard	xcomp
20	of	of	ADP	_	19 tell	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 was	punct
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 was	expl
23	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 tell	ccomp
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 lassie	det
25	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 lassie	amod
26	lassie	lassie	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 was	nsubj
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 weep	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 weep	aux
29	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 lassie	acl:relcl
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 day	det
31	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 weep	obl:unmarked
32	to	to	PART	_	33 have	mark
33	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 weep	advcl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 stars	det
35	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 have	obj
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 sky	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 sky	det
38	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 have	obl
39	to	to	PART	_	40 play	mark
40	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 have	xcomp
41	with	with	ADP	_	40 play	obl
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 have	punct
43	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 have	nsubj
44	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 have	aux
45	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	46 have	advmod
46	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 tell	conj
47	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	46 have	obj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 have	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 have	cc
50	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 have	nsubj
51	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 have	aux
52	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	53 have	advmod
53	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 heard	conj
54	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	53 have	obj
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 stars	punct
56	but	but	CCONJ	_	61 stars	cc
57	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 stars	nsubj
58	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	61 stars	cop
59	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	61 stars	advmod
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 stars	det
61	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 have	obj
62	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 have	nsubj
63	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	64 have	aux
64	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	61 stars	acl:relcl
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Once	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	I			time		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	I not said here					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	be	past	a tiny lassie		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	weep	would	a tiny lassie			day		vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	have	to-infinitive	a tiny lassie not said here	the stars	the sky			tree rules
6	play	to-infinitive	the stars not said here					vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	not have	would	lassie	this				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Patient
8	not have	would	lassie	that				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient
9	is a	past	star	the stars			always property	tree rules
10	have	would	lassie	the stars not said here				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent star=Patient

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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