More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 16

She laid her ear to the stone and heard the words: "Hurry up, Scantlie Mab, for I've promised the yarn and Habetrot always keeps her promise."

Who acts: Causleen, Habetrot · What happens: lay, hear, hurry up, promise, keep · To what, where: ear, words, Scantlie, girl, promise · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Causleen, Habetrot), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laid	nsubj
2	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 ear	nmod:poss
4	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 laid	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 stone	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stone	det
7	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 laid	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 heard	cc
9	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laid	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 words	det
11	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 heard	obj
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 Hurry	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 Hurry	punct
14	Hurry	hurry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 heard	conj
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 Hurry	compound:prt
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Scantlie	punct
17	Scantlie	Scantlie	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Hurry	obj
18	Mab	Mab	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Scantlie	flat
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 promised	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 promised	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 promised	nsubj:pass
22	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 promised	aux
23	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 Hurry	parataxis
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 yarn	det
25	yarn	yarn	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 promised	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 keeps	cc
27	Habetrot	Habetrot	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 keeps	nsubj
28	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	29 keeps	advmod
29	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 promised	conj
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 promise	nmod:poss
31	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 keeps	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 laid	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lay	past	Causleen	Causleen's ear	to the stone	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Result
2	hear	past	Causleen not said here	the words		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
3	hurry up in a quote	infinitive	Causleen not said here	Scantlie		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scantlie=Agent
4	promise speech: promise in a quote	present · perfect · passive		the girl = girl		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal yarn=Theme
5	keep in a quote	present	Habetrot	Causleen's promise	always property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme
6	promise in a quote		Causleen			nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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