More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 2

I'll warrant you find the stair easier at home than by such a way; 't was ne'er meant for lassies' feet to travel;" and off he splashed through the water.

Who acts: I, stair · What happens: warrant, find, mean, travel, splash · To what, where: you, t, water

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 (I, stair), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 warrant	nsubj
2	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 warrant	aux
3	warrant	warrant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 warrant	obj
5	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 warrant	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stair	det
7	stair	stair	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 easier	nsubj
8	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 find	ccomp
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 home	case
10	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 easier	obl
11	than	than	ADP	_	15 way	case
12	by	by	ADP	_	15 way	case
13	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	15 way	det:predet
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 way	det
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 easier	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 meant	punct
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 meant	punct
18	t	t	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 meant	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 meant	aux:pass
20	ne'er	ne'er	ADV	_	21 meant	advmod
21	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 warrant	advcl
22	for	for	ADP	_	25 feet	case
23	lassies	lassie	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 feet	nmod:poss
24	'	's	PART	_	23 lassies	case
25	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 meant	obl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 travel	mark
27	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 meant	advcl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 warrant	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 warrant	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 splashed	cc
31	off	off	ADV	_	33 splashed	advmod
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 splashed	nsubj
33	splashed	splash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 warrant	conj
34	through	through	ADP	_	36 water	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 water	det
36	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 splashed	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 warrant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	warrant	future	I	you			tree rules
2	find	infinitive	I not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	mean	past · passive		t		for lassies's feet; ne'er property	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme for foot=Attribute
4	travel	to-infinitive					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	splash in a quote	past	stair		the water	off property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through water=Location

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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