More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 43

The song ended, Scantlie Mab asked Habetrot what she meant by the last line, "Unseen by all but we alone."

Who acts: song, Scantlie · What happens: end, ask, mean · To what, where: Habetrot · 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 (song, Scantlie), 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	2 song	det
2	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ended	nsubj
3	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 asked	punct
5	Scantlie	Scantlie	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 asked	nsubj
6	Mab	Mab	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Scantlie	flat
7	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ended	conj
8	Habetrot	Habetrot	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 asked	iobj
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 meant	obj
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 meant	nsubj
11	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 asked	ccomp
12	by	by	ADP	_	15 line	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 line	det
14	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 line	amod
15	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 meant	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Unseen	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 Unseen	punct
18	Unseen	unseen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 line	amod
19	by	by	ADP	_	20 all	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 Unseen	obl
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 we	cc
22	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 meant	conj
23	alone	alone	ADV	_	11 meant	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ended	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 ended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	end	past	the song			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	ask speech: ask	past	Scantlie	Habetrot		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent habetrot=Recipient clause=Topic
3	mean	past	Scantlie		by the last line; alone property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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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