More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 20

While the girl was still watching, she heard Habetrot address this dame by the name of Scantlie Mab, and say, "Bundle up the yarn, it is time the young lassie should give it to her mother."

Who acts: girl, Habetrot, yarn, young lassie · What happens: watch, hear, address, say, bundle up, be · To what, where: dame, yarn, time, mother, Scantlie · 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 (girl, Habetrot, yarn, young lassie), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	6 watching	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 watching	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 watching	aux
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 watching	advmod
6	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 heard	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 watching	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 heard	nsubj
9	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Habetrot	Habetrot	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 address	nsubj
11	address	address	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 heard	ccomp
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 dame	det
13	dame	dame	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 address	obj
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 name	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 name	det
16	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 address	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 Scantlie	case
18	Scantlie	Scantlie	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 name	nmod
19	Mab	Mab	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Scantlie	flat
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 say	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 say	cc
22	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 heard	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Bundle	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 Bundle	punct
25	Bundle	bundle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 say	conj
26	up	up	ADP	_	25 Bundle	compound:prt
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 yarn	det
28	yarn	yarn	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 Bundle	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 time	punct
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 time	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 time	cop
32	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 say	obl:unmarked
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 lassie	det
34	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 lassie	amod
35	lassie	lassie	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 give	nsubj
36	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 give	aux
37	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 time	acl:relcl
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 give	obj
39	to	to	ADP	_	41 mother	case
40	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 mother	nmod:poss
41	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 give	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 heard	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	watch	past · progressive	the girl			still		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2	hear	past	girl					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	address	infinitive	Habetrot	this dame			by the name of Scantlie	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dame=Destination
4	say speech: assert	infinitive	girl not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	bundle up in a quote	infinitive	girl not said here	the yarn				vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yarn=Patient
6	is a in a quote	present	yarn	time				tree rules
7	give in a quote	should	the young lassie	yarn	Habetrot's mother			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to mother=Recipient
8	name			Scantlie				nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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