More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 81

Now this little boy used to go out and feed his bull-calf every day with barley bread, and when he did so this time, an old man came up to him--we can guess who that was, eh?--and said to him: "You and your bull-calf had better go away and seek your fortune."

Who acts: father, old man, we · What happens: use, go out, feed, do, come up, guess · To what, where: little boy, bull calf, time, father, fortune · 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 (father, old man, we), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 boy	advmod
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 boy	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 boy	amod
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 boy	acl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 go	mark
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 used	xcomp
8	out	out	ADV	_	7 go	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 feed	cc
10	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 go	conj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 calf	nmod:poss
12	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 calf	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 bull	punct
14	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 feed	obj
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 day	det
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 feed	obl:unmarked
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 bread	case
18	barley	barley	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bread	compound
19	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 day	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 guess	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 guess	cc
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 did	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 did	nsubj
24	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 guess	advcl
25	so	so	ADV	_	39 guess	advmod
26	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 time	det
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 guess	obl:unmarked
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 came	punct
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 man	det
30	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 man	amod
31	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 came	nsubj
32	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 time	acl:relcl
33	up	up	ADV	_	32 came	advmod
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 came	obl
36	--	--	PUNCT	_	27 time	punct
37	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 guess	nsubj
38	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 guess	aux
39	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 boy	parataxis
40	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 guess	ccomp
41	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 who	conj
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 who	cop
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 eh	punct
44	eh	eh	INTJ	_	39 guess	discourse
45	?	?	PUNCT	_	44 eh	punct
46	--	--	PUNCT	_	48 said	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 said	cc
48	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 guess	advcl
49	to	to	ADP	_	50 him	case
50	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 said	obl
51	:	:	PUNCT	_	59 had	punct
52	"	"	PUNCT	_	59 had	punct
53	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	59 had	nsubj
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 calf	cc
55	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 calf	nmod:poss
56	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 calf	compound
57	-	-	PUNCT	_	56 bull	punct
58	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 You	conj
59	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	61 go	aux
60	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	59 had	advmod
61	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 said	ccomp
62	away	away	ADV	_	61 go	advmod
63	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 seek	cc
64	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	61 go	conj
65	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	66 fortune	nmod:poss
66	fortune	fortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 seek	obj
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 boy	punct
68	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 boy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	use	participle		this little boy not said here				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	go out	to-infinitive					out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	feed	infinitive			father's bull calf	day		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calf=Recipient
4	do	past	father					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	come up	past	a old man	this time not said here	father			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=Theme
6	guess	can	we			time		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	is a	past		this little boy				tree rules
8	say speech: assert	past	we not said here		father			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic
9	go away in a quote	past					away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	seek in a quote	infinitive		your fortune				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=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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