More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 87
Some cried, "Thou must go to Lancaster first."
Who acts: Some, Thou · What happens: cry, go · To what, where: Lancaster · 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 (Some, 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 cried | nsubj |
| 2 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
| 5 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 go | nsubj |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 go | aux |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 cried | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Lancaster | case |
| 9 | Lancaster | Lancaster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl |
| 10 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 go | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Some | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go in a quote | must | Thou | Lancaster | first property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lancaster=Initial_Location |
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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