More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 84
No," says the bull-calf, "I'm going across the field, into the wild-wood wilderness country, where there'll be tigers, leopards, wolves, monkeys, and a fiery dragon, and I'll kill them all except the fiery dragon, and he'll kill me."
Who acts: I, father · What happens: say, go, be, kill · To what, where: bull calf, fiery dragon, field, tigers, monkeys, me · 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 (I, father), 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 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 says | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 calf | det |
| 6 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 calf | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 bull | punct |
| 8 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 going | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 going | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 going | nsubj |
| 12 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 going | aux |
| 13 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 says | ccomp |
| 14 | across | across | ADP | _ | 16 field | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 field | det |
| 16 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 going | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 country | punct |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 country | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 country | det |
| 20 | wild | wild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wood | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 wild | punct |
| 22 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 wilderness | compound |
| 23 | wilderness | wilderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 country | compound |
| 24 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 going | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 tigers | punct |
| 26 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 29 be | advmod |
| 27 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 29 be | expl |
| 28 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 be | aux |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 tigers | cop |
| 30 | tigers | tiger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 country | parataxis |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 leopards | punct |
| 32 | leopards | leopard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 tigers | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 wolves | punct |
| 34 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 tigers | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 monkeys | punct |
| 36 | monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 wolves | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 dragon | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 dragon | cc |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 dragon | det |
| 40 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 dragon | amod |
| 41 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 going | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 kill | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 kill | cc |
| 44 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 46 kill | nsubj |
| 45 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 kill | aux |
| 46 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 says | conj |
| 47 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 kill | obj |
| 48 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 47 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 49 | except | except | ADP | _ | 52 dragon | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 dragon | det |
| 51 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 dragon | amod |
| 52 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 kill | obl |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 kill | punct |
| 54 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 57 kill | cc |
| 55 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 57 kill | nsubj |
| 56 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 57 kill | aux |
| 57 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 says | ccomp |
| 58 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 57 kill | obj |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 57 kill | punct |
| 60 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 57 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | the bull calf | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | present · progressive | I | a fiery dragon | the field | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across field=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | is a | infinitive | tigers and leopards and wolves and monkeys | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | kill | future | I | monkeys = monkey | except the fiery dragon | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 5 | kill | future | father | me | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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