More English Fairy Tales, LIII. the Hedley Kow, sentence 9

Our story is shortly referred to thus: "He would present himself to some old dame gathering sticks, in the form of a truss of straw, which she would be sure to take up and carry away.

Who acts: _, old dame, Kow · What happens: refer, present, gather, be, take up, carry away · To what, where: story, _, old dame, form, sticks, truss

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 (_, old dame, Kow), 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	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 story	nmod:poss
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 referred	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 referred	aux:pass
4	shortly	shortly	ADV	_	5 referred	advmod
5	referred	refer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 thus	case
7	thus	thus	ADV	_	5 referred	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 present	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 present	punct
10	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 present	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 present	aux
12	present	present	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 referred	conj
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 present	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 dame	case
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 dame	det
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 dame	amod
17	dame	dame	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 present	obl
18	gathering	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 dame	acl
19	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 gathering	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 form	punct
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 form	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 form	det
23	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 present	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 truss	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 truss	det
26	truss	truss	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 form	nmod
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 straw	case
28	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 truss	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 sure	punct
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 sure	ccomp
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 sure	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 sure	aux
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 sure	cop
34	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 truss	conj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 take	mark
36	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 sure	xcomp
37	up	up	ADP	_	36 take	compound:prt
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 carry	cc
39	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 take	conj
40	away	away	ADV	_	39 carry	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 referred	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	refer	present · passive		Our story			shortly property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to thus=Recipient
2	present in a quote	would	_	_	some old dame	the form of a truss of straw		vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Theme to dame=Recipient
3	gather in a quote	gerund	some old dame not said here	sticks				vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme
4	is in a quote	would	Kow				sure property	tree rules
5	take up in a quote	to-infinitive	Kow not said here					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	carry away in a quote	infinitive	Kow not said here				away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	form in a quote			a truss of straw				nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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