More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 48

At least they tried to say so, but one grunted out "Nakasind," and another "Owkasaänd," while a third murmured "O-a-a-send."

Who acts: tone, one, third · What happens: try, say, grunt out, murmur · To what, where: least, Nakasind, send · 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 (tone, one, third), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 least	case
2	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 tried	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tried	nsubj
4	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 say	mark
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tried	xcomp
7	so	so	ADV	_	6 say	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 grunted	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 grunted	cc
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 grunted	nsubj
11	grunted	grunt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 tried	conj
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 grunted	compound:prt
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 Nakasind	punct
14	Nakasind	Nakasind	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 grunted	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Nakasind	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 Nakasind	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 Owkasaänd	cc
18	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	20 Owkasaänd	det
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 Owkasaänd	punct
20	Owkasaänd	Owkasaänd	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Nakasind	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Nakasind	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 Nakasind	punct
23	while	while	SCONJ	_	25 third	mark
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 third	det
25	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grunted	obl:agent
26	murmured	murmur	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 third	acl
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 send	punct
28	O	o	INTJ	_	34 send	discourse
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 send	punct
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 send	det
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 send	punct
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 send	det
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 a	punct
34	send	send	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 murmured	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tried	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	try	past	tone		least	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	tone not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	grunt out	participle	one	Nakasind and another Owkasaänd		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent nakasind=Theme
4	murmur speech: other	participle	a third not said here	a send		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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