More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 45

Once upon a time the men of Gotham would have kept the Cuckoo so that she might sing all the year, and in the midst of their town they made a hedge round in compass and they got a Cuckoo, and put her into it, and said, "Sing there all through the year, or thou shalt have neither meat nor water."

Who acts: _, men, thou · What happens: keep, sing, make, get, put, say · To what, where: men, hedge, midst, Cuckoo, _, meat · 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 (_, men, thou), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 time	advmod
2	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 time	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 kept	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 men	det
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 kept	nsubj:pass
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Gotham	case
8	Gotham	Gotham	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 men	nmod
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 kept	aux
10	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 kept	aux
11	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Cuckoo	det
13	Cuckoo	cuckoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 kept	obj
14	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	18 sing	mark
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 so	fixed
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sing	nsubj
17	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 sing	aux
18	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 kept	advcl
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 year	det:predet
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 year	det
21	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sing	obl:unmarked
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 made	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 made	cc
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 midst	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 midst	det
26	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 made	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 town	case
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 town	nmod:poss
29	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 midst	nmod
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 made	nsubj
31	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 kept	parataxis
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 hedge	det
33	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 made	obj
34	round	round	ADV	_	31 made	advmod
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 compass	case
36	compass	compass	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 made	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 got	cc
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 got	nsubj
39	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 made	conj
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 Cuckoo	det
41	Cuckoo	cuckoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 got	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 put	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 put	cc
44	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 made	conj
45	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 put	obj
46	into	into	ADP	_	47 it	case
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 put	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 said	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 said	cc
50	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 made	parataxis
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 Sing	punct
52	"	"	PUNCT	_	53 Sing	punct
53	Sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 said	ccomp
54	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	53 Sing	advmod
55	all	all	ADV	_	58 year	advmod
56	through	through	ADP	_	58 year	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 year	det
58	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 Sing	obl
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 have	punct
60	or	or	CCONJ	_	63 have	cc
61	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	63 have	nsubj
62	shalt	shall	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	63 have	aux
63	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 kept	parataxis
64	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	65 meat	det
65	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 have	obj
66	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	67 water	cc
67	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 meat	conj
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	63 have	punct
69	"	"	PUNCT	_	63 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	would · perfect · passive		the men of Gotham			time		tree rules
2	sing speech: express	might	_				year		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
3	make	past	men = man	a hedge		the midst of men's town		in compass; round property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hedge=Product
4	get	past	men = man	a Cuckoo					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cuckoo=Stimulus
5	put	past	men = man not said here		_	Cuckoo			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal
6	say speech: assert	past							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	sing speech: express in a quote	infinitive				there	year		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	have in a quote	shall	thou	neither meat nor water					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient

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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