More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 24

Now the wicked old cook--why hadn't she been sent away?--was looking on, so she said, "Only see how beggars' brats take to one another."

Who acts: wicked old cook, cook, brats · What happens: not send away, look on, say, see, take · To what, where: cook, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wicked old cook, cook, brats), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 cook	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cook	det
3	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cook	amod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cook	amod
5	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 looking	nsubj
6	--	--	PUNCT	_	12 sent	punct
7	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	12 sent	advmod
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sent	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 sent	advmod
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sent	nsubj
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 sent	aux:pass
12	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 cook	parataxis
13	away	away	ADV	_	12 sent	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 sent	punct
15	--	--	PUNCT	_	5 cook	punct
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 looking	aux
17	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
18	on	on	ADP	_	17 looking	compound:prt
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	22 said	advmod
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 said	nsubj
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 looking	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 see	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 see	punct
25	Only	only	ADV	_	26 see	advmod
26	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 said	ccomp
27	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	31 take	advmod
28	beggars	beggar	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 brats	nmod:poss
29	'	's	PART	_	28 beggars	case
30	brats	brat	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 take	nsubj
31	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 see	advcl
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 one	case
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 take	obj
34	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	33 one	fixed
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 looking	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 looking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not send away	past · perfect · passive		cook	away property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	look on	past · progressive	the wicked old cook			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	cook			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	see in a quote	infinitive				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	take in a quote	present	beggars's brats	one		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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