More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 144

He replied, "Mayhap I may, when I have baited my hook;" and after a little while he brought out another, which was finer than the first, and the princess was so delighted that she gave him leave to go to sleep, and promised to excuse him to her father.

Who acts: shepherd, princess · What happens: reply, bait, bring out, be, give, leave · To what, where: Mayhap, hook, another, shepherd, sleep · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shepherd, princess), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 replied	nsubj
2	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Mayhap	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 Mayhap	punct
5	Mayhap	Mayhap	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 replied	obl
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 may	nsubj
7	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 Mayhap	flat
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 baited	punct
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 baited	advmod
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 baited	nsubj
11	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 baited	aux
12	baited	bait	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 Mayhap	acl:relcl
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 hook	nmod:poss
14	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 baited	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 replied	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 replied	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 brought	cc
18	after	after	ADP	_	21 while	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 while	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 while	amod
21	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 brought	obl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 brought	nsubj
23	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 replied	conj
24	out	out	ADV	_	23 brought	advmod
25	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	23 brought	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 finer	punct
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 finer	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 finer	cop
29	finer	fine	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 another	acl
30	than	than	ADP	_	32 first	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 first	det
32	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	29 finer	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 delighted	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 delighted	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 princess	det
36	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 delighted	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 delighted	cop
38	so	so	ADV	_	39 delighted	advmod
39	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 finer	conj
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 gave	mark
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 gave	nsubj
42	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 delighted	advcl
43	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 gave	iobj
44	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 gave	xcomp
45	to	to	PART	_	46 go	mark
46	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 leave	xcomp
47	to	to	ADP	_	48 sleep	case
48	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 go	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 promised	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 promised	cc
51	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 replied	conj
52	to	to	PART	_	53 excuse	mark
53	excuse	excuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 promised	xcomp
54	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 excuse	obj
55	to	to	ADP	_	57 father	case
56	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 father	nmod:poss
57	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 excuse	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	shepherd	Mayhap					vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bait in a quote	present · perfect	shepherd	my hook					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent hook=Destination
3	bring out	past	shepherd	another			while	out property	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent another=Patient
4	is	past						than the first; fine property	tree rules
5	is	past	the princess					delighted property	tree rules
6	give	past	Princess		shepherd				tree rules
7	leave	infinitive	Princess not said here						tree rules
8	go	to-infinitive	Princess not said here			sleep			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location
9	promise speech: promise	past	shepherd not said here						vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
10	excuse not said to happen	to-infinitive	shepherd not said here	shepherd				to pond's father	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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