More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 33

There was once a little boy, and his mother sent him to buy a sheep's head and pluck; afraid he should forget it, the lad kept saying all the way along:

Who acts: mother, boy, lad · What happens: send, buy, be, forget, keep, say · To what, where: boy, head, way · 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 (mother, boy, lad), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 afraid	cop
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 boy	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 boy	amod
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sent	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sent	cc
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mother	nmod:poss
10	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sent	nsubj
11	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sent	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 buy	mark
14	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 sent	xcomp
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 sheep	det
16	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 head	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 sheep	case
18	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 buy	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 pluck	cc
20	pluck	pluck	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 head	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 afraid	punct
22	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 forget	nsubj
24	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 forget	aux
25	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 afraid	ccomp
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 forget	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 kept	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 lad	det
29	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 kept	nsubj
30	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 afraid	conj
31	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 kept	xcomp
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 way	det:predet
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 way	det
34	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 saying	obl:unmarked
35	along	along	ADV	_	31 saying	advmod
36	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	send	past	boy's mother	boy		tree rules
2	buy	to-infinitive	boy not said here	a sheep's head and pluck		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
3	is	past			afraid property	tree rules
4	forget	should	boy	head		tree rules
5	keep	past	the lad			tree rules
6	say speech: assert	gerund	the lad not said here	all way	along property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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