More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 62
Old Mother Wiggle-Waggle hopped out of bed, Out of the window she popped her old head; "Oh! husband, oh! husband, the grey goose is gone, And the fox is off to his den, oh!"
Who acts: Old Mother, mother, grey goose, fox · What happens: hop, pop, be · To what, where: bed, old head, window · 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 (Old Mother, mother, grey goose, fox), 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 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Mother | amod |
| 2 | Mother | Mother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 hopped | nsubj |
| 3 | Wiggle | Wiggle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Mother | flat |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Waggle | punct |
| 5 | Waggle | Waggle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Mother | conj |
| 6 | hopped | hop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 bed | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 bed | case |
| 9 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hopped | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 popped | punct |
| 11 | Out | out | ADP | _ | 14 window | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 window | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 window | det |
| 14 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 popped | obl |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 popped | nsubj |
| 16 | popped | pop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hopped | conj |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 head | nmod:poss |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 head | amod |
| 19 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 popped | obj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 husband | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 husband | punct |
| 22 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 24 husband | discourse |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 22 Oh | punct |
| 24 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 husband | compound |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 oh | punct |
| 26 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 24 husband | discourse |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 24 husband | punct |
| 28 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hopped | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 gone | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 goose | det |
| 31 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 goose | amod |
| 32 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 gone | nsubj |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 gone | cop |
| 34 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 husband | parataxis |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 off | punct |
| 36 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 off | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 fox | det |
| 38 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 off | nsubj |
| 39 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 off | cop |
| 40 | off | off | ADV | _ | 34 gone | conj |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 den | case |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 den | nmod:poss |
| 43 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 off | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 oh | punct |
| 45 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 40 off | discourse |
| 46 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 45 oh | punct |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hop | past | Old Mother and Waggle | bed | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out bed=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | pop | past | mother | mother's old head | the window | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the grey goose | gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | the fox | to rest's den; off property | tree rules |
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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