More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 156
And wee, wee Mannie went off and told the big, big Coo.
Who acts: wee · What happens: go off, tell · To what, where: big big Coo · 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 (wee), 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 went | cc |
| 2 | wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 went | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wee | punct |
| 4 | wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 wee | conj |
| 5 | Mannie | Mannie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 went | compound:prt |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 told | cc |
| 9 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Coo | det |
| 11 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Coo | amod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 big | punct |
| 13 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Coo | amod |
| 14 | Coo | coo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 told | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go off | past | wee | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | wee not said here | the big big Coo | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent coo=Recipient |
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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