More English Fairy Tales, LIII. the Hedley Kow, sentence 3

Mrs. M.'s mother told the tale as having happened to a person she had known when young: she had herself seen the Hedley Kow twice, once as a donkey and once as a wisp of straw. "

Who acts: mother · What happens: tell, have, happen, know, see · To what, where: tale, person, mother, Hedley Kow · 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: who acts (mother), 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	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 mother	nmod:poss
2	M.	M.	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mrs.	flat
3	's	's	PART	_	1 Mrs.	case
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tale	det
7	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	obj
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 having	mark
9	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 told	advcl
10	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 having	xcomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 person	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 person	det
13	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 happened	obl
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 known	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 known	aux
16	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 person	acl:relcl
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 young	advmod
18	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 known	xcomp
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	ccomp
22	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 had	obj
23	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 had	xcomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Kow	det
25	Hedley	Hedley	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Kow	compound
26	Kow	Kow	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 seen	obj
27	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	23 seen	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 once	punct
29	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	21 had	obl
30	as	as	ADP	_	32 donkey	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 donkey	det
32	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 once	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 once	cc
34	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	29 once	conj
35	as	as	ADP	_	37 wisp	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 wisp	det
37	wisp	wisp	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 once	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 straw	case
39	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 wisp	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Mrs.'s mother	the tale		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient clause=Topic
2	have	gerund	Mrs.'s mother not said here			tree rules
3	happen	participle	Mrs.'s mother not said here		to a person	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	know	past · perfect	mother	a person not said here	young property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer person=Stimulus
5	have	past	mother	mother		tree rules
6	see	participle	mother not said here	the Hedley Kow	twice property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kow=Stimulus

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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