More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 62

The good folk nearly were furious, seized and struck him, charging him to say:

Who acts: good folk · What happens: be, seize, strike, charge, say · To what, where: folk · 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 (good folk), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 folk	det
2	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 folk	amod
3	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 seized	nsubj
4	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	6 furious	advmod
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 furious	cop
6	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 folk	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 folk	punct
8	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 struck	cc
10	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 seized	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 struck	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 charging	punct
13	charging	charge	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 struck	advcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 charging	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 say	mark
16	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 charging	xcomp
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past			furious, nearly property	tree rules
2	seize	past	the good folk			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	strike	past	the good folk not said here	folk		vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument
4	charge	gerund	the good folk not said here	folk		tree rules
5	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	the good folk not said here			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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