More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 60
Then he took the grey goose by her sleeve, And said: "Madam Grey Goose, by your leave I'll take you away without reprieve, And carry you back to my den-o!"
Who acts: rest · What happens: take, say, take away, carry back · To what, where: grey goose, you, den o · 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 (rest), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 goose | det |
| 5 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 goose | amod |
| 6 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 sleeve | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 sleeve | nmod:poss |
| 9 | sleeve | sleeve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 Goose | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Goose | punct |
| 15 | Madam | Madam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Grey | compound |
| 16 | Grey | Grey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Goose | compound |
| 17 | Goose | Goose | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 take | punct |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 leave | case |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 leave | nmod:poss |
| 21 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 take | obl |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 take | nsubj |
| 23 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 take | aux |
| 24 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 take | obj |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 24 take | advmod |
| 27 | without | without | ADP | _ | 28 reprieve | case |
| 28 | reprieve | reprieve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 take | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 carry | punct |
| 30 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 carry | cc |
| 31 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | conj |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 carry | obj |
| 33 | back | back | ADV | _ | 31 carry | advmod |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 o | case |
| 35 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 o | nmod:poss |
| 36 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 o | compound |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 den | punct |
| 38 | o | o | NOUN | _ | 31 carry | obl |
| 39 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | rest | the grey goose | then | by farmer's sleeve | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument goose=Destination | ||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | rest not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | take away in a quote | future | rest | you | by your leave; without reprieve; away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 4 | carry back in a quote | infinitive | rest not said here | you | my den o | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to o=Destination |
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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