More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 86

"Yes, he will," said the little bull-calf, "so you climb up that tree, so that no one can come nigh you but the monkeys, and if they come the cheese crud will save you.

Who acts: little bull calf, you, one, monkeys, cheese crud · What happens: say, climb up, come, save · To what, where: tree, 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 bull calf, you, one, monkeys), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 will	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 will	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 said	aux
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 will	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 will	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 calf	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 calf	amod
11	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 calf	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 bull	punct
13	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 climb	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 climb	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	18 climb	advmod
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 climb	nsubj
18	climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 climb	compound:prt
20	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 tree	det
21	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 climb	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 come	punct
23	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	28 come	mark
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 so	fixed
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 one	det
26	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 come	nsubj
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 come	aux
28	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 climb	conj
29	nigh	nigh	ADV	_	28 come	advmod
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 come	parataxis
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 monkeys	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 monkeys	det
33	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 you	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 come	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 come	cc
36	if	if	SCONJ	_	38 come	mark
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 come	nsubj
38	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 crud	det
40	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 crud	compound
41	crud	crud	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 save	nsubj
42	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 save	aux
43	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 come	parataxis
44	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 save	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	future	the little bull calf			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	climb up in a quote	present	you	that tree		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme
3	come in a quote	can	no one		nigh property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	monkeys = monkey			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	save in a quote	future	the cheese crud	you		vn get-13.5.1-1 «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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