More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 107

And sorry she was he had to go, and before he went she tied a diamond ring in his hair, and said good-bye to him.

Who acts: daughter, lad · What happens: be, go, tie, say · To what, where: diamond ring, hair · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, lad), 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	_	6 had	cc
2	sorry	sorry	INTJ	_	6 had	discourse
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 had	cop
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 go	mark
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 had	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 went	cc
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 went	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 had	parataxis
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 tied	nsubj
15	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 went	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 ring	det
17	diamond	diamond	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ring	compound
18	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tied	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 hair	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 hair	nmod:poss
21	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ring	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 said	cc
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 had	conj
25	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 said	xcomp
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 bye	punct
27	bye	bye	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 good	conj
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 bye	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	daughter			have property	tree rules
2	go	to-infinitive	daughter not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go	past	lad				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	tie	past	daughter	a diamond ring	lad's hair		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Patient
5	say speech: assert	past	daughter not said here			good property	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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