More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 77

So they sent a man with a great heap of pease; and the man cried to all the birds of the air, "Each bird take a pea, and put down a feather."

Who acts: geese, great heap, man, bird · What happens: send, pease, cry, take, put down · To what, where: man, birds, pea, feather · 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 (geese, great heap, man, bird), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 sent	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sent	nsubj
3	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 man	det
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 heap	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 heap	det
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 heap	amod
9	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 man	nmod
10	of	of	SCONJ	_	11 pease	mark
11	pease	pease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 heap	acl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 cried	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 cried	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cried	nsubj
16	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	20 birds	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 birds	det:predet
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 birds	det
20	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 cried	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 air	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 air	det
23	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 birds	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 take	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 take	punct
26	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	27 bird	det
27	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 take	nsubj
28	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 cried	parataxis
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 pea	det
30	pea	pea	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 take	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 put	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 put	cc
33	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 take	conj
34	down	down	ADP	_	33 put	compound:prt
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 feather	det
36	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 put	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	send	past	geese = goose	a man		with a great heap	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
2	pease	infinitive	a great heap not said here				tree rules
3	cry speech: express	past	the man		all birds of the air		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to bird=Recipient clause=Topic
4	take in a quote	infinitive	each bird	a pea			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pea=Theme
5	put down in a quote	participle	each bird not said here	a feather			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent feather=Goal

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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