More English Fairy Tales, XLIX. Yallery Brown, sentence 3

It was told to Mrs. Balfour by a labourer, who professed to be the hero of the story, and related it in the first person.

Who acts: Mrs., labourer · What happens: tell, profess, be, relate · To what, where: Source, hero · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLIX. Yallery Brown. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mrs., labourer), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	aux:pass
3	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 Mrs.	case
5	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 told	obl:agent
6	Balfour	Balfour	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Mrs.	flat
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 labourer	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 labourer	det
9	labourer	labourer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 professed	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 professed	nsubj
12	professed	profess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 labourer	acl:relcl
13	to	to	PART	_	16 hero	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 hero	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hero	det
16	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 professed	ccomp
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 story	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 story	det
19	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hero	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 related	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 related	cc
22	related	relate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 related	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 person	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 person	det
26	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	27 person	amod
27	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 related	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive	Mrs.	Source	by a labourer	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient
2	profess	past	a labourer			vn declare-29.4-1-1-2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	is a	to-infinitive	a labourer not said here	the hero	of the story	tree rules
4	relate	past	Mrs. not said here	Source	in the first person goal	vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent it=Theme in person=Goal

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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