More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 82

So he went on and he went on and he went on, as far as I could tell you till to-morrow night, and he went up to a farmhouse and begged a crust of bread, and when he got back he broke it in two and gave half of it to the bull-calf.

Who acts: father, I · What happens: go on, tell, go up, beg, get back, break · To what, where: you, crust, two, half, bull calf · 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, I), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 went	cc
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 went	nsubj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
8	on	on	ADV	_	7 went	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 went	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 went	nsubj
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
12	on	on	ADV	_	11 went	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 far	punct
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 far	advmod
15	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 went	advmod
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 tell	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 tell	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 tell	aux
19	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 far	advcl
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 tell	iobj
21	till	till	ADP	_	25 night	case
22	to	to	ADP	_	25 night	case
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 to	punct
24	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 night	compound
25	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tell	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 went	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 went	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 went	nsubj
29	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 went	compound:prt
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 farmhouse	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 farmhouse	det
33	farmhouse	farmhouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 went	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 begged	cc
35	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 went	conj
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 crust	det
37	crust	crust	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 begged	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 bread	case
39	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 crust	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 broke	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 broke	cc
42	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	44 got	advmod
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 got	nsubj
44	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 broke	advcl
45	back	back	ADV	_	44 got	advmod
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 broke	nsubj
47	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 broke	obj
49	in	in	ADP	_	50 two	case
50	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	47 broke	obl
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 gave	cc
52	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 broke	conj
53	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	52 gave	obj
54	of	of	ADP	_	55 it	case
55	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 half	nmod
56	to	to	ADP	_	60 calf	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 calf	det
58	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 calf	compound
59	-	-	PUNCT	_	58 bull	punct
60	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 gave	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	past	father						vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go on	past	father						vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go on	past	father					far property	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	could	I		you		night		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
5	go up	past	father					to a farmhouse	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	beg speech: request	past	father not said here	a crust of bread					vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent crust=Recipient
7	get back	past	father						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
8	break	past	father	crust		two			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient
9	give	past	father not said here	half of bread	the bull calf				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent half=Theme to calf=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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