More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 155

Then said his mother, "Run quick and tell her that her head's going to be cut off by the sharp, sharp sword in the hands of the fine, fine laddie, if she doesn't give the sup o' milk the weary, weary lady weeps for."

Who acts: head, sharp sharp sword, mother, weary weary lady · What happens: say, run, tell, go, cut off, not give · To what, where: mother, hands, sup · 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 (head, sharp sharp sword, mother, weary weary lady), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 said	advmod
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mother	nmod:poss
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Run	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Run	punct
7	Run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 said	parataxis
8	quick	quick	ADV	_	7 Run	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 tell	cc
10	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 Run	conj
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tell	iobj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 going	mark
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 head	nmod:poss
14	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 going	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 going	aux
16	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 tell	advcl
17	to	to	PART	_	19 cut	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 cut	aux:pass
19	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 going	xcomp
20	off	off	ADP	_	19 cut	compound:prt
21	by	by	ADP	_	26 sword	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 sword	det
23	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 sword	amod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sharp	punct
25	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 sword	amod
26	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cut	obl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 hands	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 hands	det
29	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 cut	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	35 laddie	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 laddie	det
32	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 laddie	amod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 fine	punct
34	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 laddie	amod
35	laddie	laddie	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hands	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 give	punct
37	if	if	SCONJ	_	41 give	mark
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 give	nsubj
39	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 give	aux
40	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 give	advmod
41	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 Run	conj
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 sup	det
43	sup	sup	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 give	obj
44	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	46 milk	case
45	'	'	PUNCT	_	46 milk	punct
46	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 sup	nmod
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 lady	det
48	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 lady	amod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 weary	punct
50	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 lady	amod
51	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 weeps	nsubj
52	weeps	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 sup	acl:relcl
53	for	for	ADP	_	52 weeps	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct
55	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		Coo's mother			then		tree rules
2	run in a quote	infinitive						quick property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive			mother				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
4	go in a quote	present · progressive	mother's head						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	cut off in a quote	to-infinitive · passive	the sharp sharp sword			the hands of the fine fine laddie			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	not give a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present · do-support	mother	the sup of milk					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sup=Theme
7	weep in a quote	present	the weary weary lady	the sup of milk not said here					vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sup=Theme

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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