More English Fairy Tales, LVI. Tattercoats, sentence 2

_--Told to Mrs. Balfour by a little girl named Sally Brown, when she lived in the Cars in Lincolnshire.

Who acts: Sally · What happens: tell, name, live · To what, where: little girl, Cars · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LVI. Tattercoats. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sally), 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	_	10 girl	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 girl	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 girl	amod
10	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Told	obl
11	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 girl	acl
12	Sally	Sally	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 named	xcomp
13	Brown	Brown	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Sally	flat
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lived	punct
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 lived	advmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 lived	nsubj
17	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 Sally	acl:relcl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 Cars	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Cars	det
20	Cars	Car	PROPN	Number=Plur	17 lived	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 Lincolnshire	case
22	Lincolnshire	Lincolnshire	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 lived	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 Told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	participle				by a little girl	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	name	participle		a little girl not said here			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	live	past	Sally		the Cars	in Lincolnshire	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in car=Location

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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