More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 85
The little boy did cry, and said: "Oh, no, my little bull-calf; I hope he won't kill you."
Who acts: little boy, boy · What happens: cry, say, hope, not kill · To what, where: you · 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 (little boy, boy), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 boy | amod |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cry | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cry | aux |
| 5 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cry | conj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 calf | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 calf | punct |
| 11 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 19 calf | discourse |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Oh | punct |
| 13 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 19 calf | discourse |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 calf | punct |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 calf | nmod:poss |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 calf | amod |
| 17 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 calf | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 bull | punct |
| 19 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 hope | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 hope | nsubj |
| 22 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cry | conj |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 kill | nsubj |
| 24 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 kill | aux |
| 25 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 kill | advmod |
| 26 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 hope | ccomp |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 kill | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cry | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past · do-support | the little boy | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the little boy not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hope in a quote | present | the little boy = boy | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not kill in a quote | future | boy | you | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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