Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 34

The foxy so wee Had daughters twice two, And a little son too, Called Phil.--Fiddle-dee!

Who acts: wee · What happens: have, call · To what, where: daughters, foxy little son · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wee), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 foxy	det
2	foxy	foxy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 son	amod
3	so	so	SCONJ	_	5 Had	mark
4	wee	wee	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Had	nsubj
5	Had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 foxy	advcl
6	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 Had	obj
7	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 two	advmod
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 daughters	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 son	punct
10	And	and	CCONJ	_	13 son	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 son	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 son	amod
13	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	too	too	ADV	_	13 son	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Called	punct
16	Called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 son	acl
17	Phil	Phil	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Called	xcomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 son	punct
19	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 dee	punct
20	Fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dee	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 Fiddle	punct
22	dee	dee	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 son	conj
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 son	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	wee	daughters					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
2	call	participle		a foxy little son and Fiddle dee not said here					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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