More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 93
When it came to parting time, the young lord said, "Pray tell me, fair maid, where you live."
Who acts: dance, young lord, Pray, you · What happens: come, say, tell, live · To what, where: fair maid, young lord · 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 (dance, young lord, Pray, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 5 | parting | parting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 time | compound |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lord | det |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lord | amod |
| 10 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tell | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 tell | punct |
| 14 | Pray | Pray | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 tell | nsubj |
| 15 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 tell | iobj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 maid | punct |
| 18 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 maid | amod |
| 19 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tell | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 live | punct |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 live | advmod |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 live | nsubj |
| 23 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 maid | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 tell | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | dance | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the young lord | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | Pray | fair maid | the young lord = lord | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||
| 4 | live in a quote | present | you | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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