More English Fairy Tales, LIII. the Hedley Kow, sentence 2

_--Told to Mrs. Balfour by Mrs. M. of S. Northumberland.

What happens: tell · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LIII. the Hedley Kow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	_	_	PUNCT	_	3 Told	punct
2	--	--	PUNCT	_	3 Told	punct
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 M.	case
8	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 M.	compound
9	M.	M.	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Told	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 S.	case
11	S.	S.	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 M.	nmod
12	Northumberland	Northumberland	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 S.	flat
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 Told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	participle						by Mrs. M. of S.	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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