More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 36

Once upon a time when pigs spoke rhyme, And monkeys chewed tobacco, And hens took snuff to make them tough, And ducks went quack, quack, quack Oh!

Who acts: pigs, monkeys, hens, ducks · What happens: speak, chew, tobacco, take, make, go · To what, where: rhyme, snuff, hens, quack · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pigs, monkeys, hens, ducks), 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	7 spoke	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	1 Once	obl
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 spoke	advmod
6	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 spoke	nsubj
7	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spoke	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tobacco	punct
10	And	and	CCONJ	_	13 tobacco	cc
11	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 tobacco	nsubj
12	chewed	chew	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 tobacco	amod
13	tobacco	tobacco	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spoke	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 took	punct
15	And	and	CCONJ	_	17 took	cc
16	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 took	nsubj
17	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 spoke	conj
18	snuff	snuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 took	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 make	mark
20	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 took	advcl
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 make	obj
22	tough	tough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 make	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 went	punct
24	And	and	CCONJ	_	26 went	cc
25	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 went	nsubj
26	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 spoke	conj
27	quack	quack	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 went	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 quack	punct
29	quack	quack	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 quack	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 quack	punct
31	quack	quack	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 quack	conj
32	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	31 quack	discourse
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	pigs	rhyme	once property	tree rules
2	chew	participle				vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tobacco		monkeys			tree rules
4	take	past	hens	snuff		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snuff=Theme
5	make	to-infinitive	hens not said here	hens = hen	tough property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product
6	go	past	ducks	quack and quack and quack		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location quack=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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