More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 76

This vexed one of the folk so sorely that he used all his strength, scrambled out, beat the crier, and told him to say.

Who acts: This, folk · What happens: vex, use, scramble out, beat, tell, say · To what, where: one, strength, crier, 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 (This, 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 vexed	nsubj
2	vexed	vex	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 vexed	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 folk	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 folk	det
6	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 one	nmod
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 sorely	advmod
8	sorely	sorely	ADV	_	11 used	advmod
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 used	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 used	nsubj
11	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 vexed	conj
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 strength	det:predet
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 strength	nmod:poss
14	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 used	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 scrambled	punct
16	scrambled	scramble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 strength	acl
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 scrambled	compound:prt
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 beat	punct
19	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 used	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 crier	det
21	crier	crier	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 beat	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 told	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 told	cc
24	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 vexed	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 told	iobj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 say	mark
27	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 told	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 vexed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	vex	past	This	one of the folk			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus one=Experiencer
2	use	past	folk	folk's strength		sorely property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Patient
3	scramble out	participle		folk's strength not said here			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	beat	infinitive	folk not said here	the crier			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location crier=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	past	This not said here		folk		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
6	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	This 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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