More English Fairy Tales, LXII. Scrapefoot, sentence 7

Mr. Nutt ingeniously suggests that Southey heard the story told of an old vixen, and mistook the rustic name of a female fox for the metaphorical application to women of fox-like temper.

Who acts: Nutt, Southey · What happens: suggest, hear, tell, mistake, name · To what, where: story, rustic name, female fox · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXII. Scrapefoot. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nutt, Southey), 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	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Nutt	nmod:desc
2	Nutt	Nutt	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 suggests	nsubj
3	ingeniously	ingeniously	ADV	_	4 suggests	advmod
4	suggests	suggest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 heard	mark
6	Southey	Southey	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 heard	nsubj
7	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 suggests	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 story	det
9	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heard	obj
10	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 story	acl
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 vixen	case
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 vixen	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 vixen	amod
14	vixen	vixen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 told	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 mistook	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 mistook	cc
17	mistook	mistake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 heard	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 name	det
19	rustic	rustic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 name	amod
20	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 mistook	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 fox	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 fox	det
23	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 fox	amod
24	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 name	nmod
25	for	for	ADP	_	28 application	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 application	det
27	metaphorical	metaphorical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 application	amod
28	application	application	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 mistook	obl
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 women	case
30	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 application	nmod
31	of	of	ADP	_	35 temper	case
32	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 like	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 fox	punct
34	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 temper	amod
35	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 women	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 suggests	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	suggest speech: suggest	present	Nutt Mr.		ingeniously property	vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hear	past	Southey	the story		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus
3	tell speech: assert	participle		the story not said here	of a old vixen	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	mistake	past	Southey not said here	the rustic name of a female fox	for the metaphorical application to women of like temper	tree rules
5	name			a female fox		nom name «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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