More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 39

A Scotch formula reported by Mrs. Balfour runs, "Once on a time when a' muckle folk were wee and a' lees were true," while Mr. Lang gives us "There was a king and a queen as mony ane's been, few have we seen and as few may we see."

Who acts: Scotch formula, muckle folk, lees, Lang, king, few · What happens: report, run, be, give, see · To what, where: Scotch formula, us, few · 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 (Scotch formula, muckle folk, lees, Lang), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 formula	det
2	Scotch	scotch	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 formula	amod
3	formula	formula	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 runs	nsubj
4	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 formula	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 Mrs.	case
6	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 reported	obl:agent
7	Balfour	Balfour	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Mrs.	flat
8	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 runs	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 Once	punct
11	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 runs	advmod
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 time	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 time	det
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Once	obl
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 wee	advmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 folk	det
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 folk	punct
18	muckle	muckle	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 folk	compound
19	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wee	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 wee	cop
21	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 runs	advcl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 true	cc
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 true	det
24	'	'	PUNCT	_	27 true	punct
25	lees	lee	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 true	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 true	cop
27	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 wee	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 true	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 wee	punct
30	while	while	SCONJ	_	33 gives	mark
31	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Lang	nmod:desc
32	Lang	Lang	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 gives	nsubj
33	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 runs	advcl
34	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 gives	iobj
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 was	punct
36	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	37 was	expl
37	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 gives	ccomp
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 king	det
39	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 was	nsubj
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 queen	cc
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 queen	det
42	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 king	conj
43	as	as	SCONJ	_	47 been	mark
44	mony	mony	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 ane	compound
45	ane	ane	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 been	nsubj
46	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 been	aux
47	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	42 queen	acl:relcl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 few	punct
49	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 seen	nsubj:pass
50	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 seen	aux
51	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	52 seen	nsubj
52	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 king	acl:relcl
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 see	cc
54	as	as	ADV	_	55 few	advmod
55	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 see	nsubj
56	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 see	aux
57	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	58 see	nsubj
58	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 seen	conj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 runs	punct
60	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 runs	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	report	participle		a Scotch formula not said here				vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	run	present	a Scotch formula				once property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is in a quote	past	a muckle folk				wee property	tree rules
4	is in a quote	past	lees				true property	tree rules
5	give	present	Lang Mr.		us			tree rules
6	be in a quote	past	a king and a queen			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	see in a quote	present · perfect · passive		few				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
8	see in a quote	may	few					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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