More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 59
The grey goose she ran round the hay-stack, "Oh, ho!" said the fox, "you are very fat; You'll grease my beard and ride on my back From this into yonder wee town, e-ho!"
Who acts: grey goose, ho, you · What happens: run, say, be, grease, ride · To what, where: fox, beard, back · 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 (grey goose, ho, you), 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 | 3 goose | det |
| 2 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 goose | amod |
| 3 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ran | nsubj |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | round | round | ADP | _ | 10 stack | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 stack | det |
| 8 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stack | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 hay | punct |
| 10 | stack | stack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ran | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ho | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 ho | punct |
| 13 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 15 ho | discourse |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Oh | punct |
| 15 | ho | ho | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 ho | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 ho | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ran | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 fox | det |
| 20 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 fat | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 fat | punct |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 fat | nsubj |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 fat | cop |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 fat | advmod |
| 26 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 said | conj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 grease | punct |
| 28 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 grease | nsubj |
| 29 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 grease | aux |
| 30 | grease | grease | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ran | parataxis |
| 31 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 beard | nmod:poss |
| 32 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 grease | obj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 ride | cc |
| 34 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 grease | conj |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 back | case |
| 36 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 back | nmod:poss |
| 37 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 ride | obl |
| 38 | From | from | ADP | _ | 39 this | case |
| 39 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 ride | obl |
| 40 | into | into | ADP | _ | 43 town | case |
| 41 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 42 wee | advmod |
| 42 | wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 town | amod |
| 43 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 ride | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 e-ho | punct |
| 45 | e-ho | e-ho | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 town | conj |
| 46 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 30 grease | punct |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 grease | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the grey goose | round the hay stack | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | ho | the fox | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fox=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | you | fat property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | grease in a quote | future | You | my beard | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent beard=Destination | ||||
| 5 | ride in a quote | present | You not said here | my back | from this; into wee town and e-ho | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from this=Trajectory |
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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