Indian Fairy Tales, XIII. the Talkative Tortoise., sentence 9
See, see, she hangeth by the throte, and therefor she speaketh not," saide others; "and the beast flieth not like a beast;" so she opened her mouth and "pashte hir all to pieces."
Who acts: you, O, therefor, beast · What happens: see, hang, not speak, not fly, open · To what, where: saide others, mouth, pieces · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIII. the Talkative Tortoise.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, O, therefor, beast), 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 | See | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 See | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hangeth | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 hangeth | nsubj |
| 6 | hangeth | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 See | parataxis |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 throte | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 throte | det |
| 9 | throte | throte | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hangeth | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 speaketh | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 speaketh | cc |
| 12 | therefor | therefor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 speaketh | nsubj |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 speaketh | nsubj |
| 14 | speaketh | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 hangeth | conj |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 speaketh | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 others | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 others | punct |
| 18 | saide | saide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 others | compound |
| 19 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 speaketh | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 flieth | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 beast | det |
| 24 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 flieth | nsubj |
| 25 | flieth | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 See | conj |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 flieth | advmod |
| 27 | like | like | ADP | _ | 29 beast | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 beast | det |
| 29 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 flieth | obl |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 opened | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 opened | punct |
| 32 | so | so | ADV | _ | 34 opened | advmod |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 opened | nsubj |
| 34 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 See | advcl |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 36 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 opened | obj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 hir | cc |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 hir | punct |
| 39 | pashte | pashte | X | _ | 40 hir | compound |
| 40 | hir | hir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 mouth | conj |
| 41 | all | all | ADV | _ | 43 pieces | advmod |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 pieces | case |
| 43 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 opened | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | hang | present | O | by the throte | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by throte=Location | ||||
| 4 | not speak speech: other | present | therefor | saide others | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | not fly | present | the beast | like a beast | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | open in a quote | past | O | O's mouth and pashte hir | pieces | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient to piece=Recipient |
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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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