English Fairy Tales, Mr. Vinegar, sentence 8

They were both very, very tired, and Mr. Vinegar said: “My love, I will climb up into a tree, drag up the door, and you shall follow.”

Who acts: Mr., Vinegar, love, you, My · What happens: be, say, climb up, drag up, follow, love · To what, where: tree, door · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mr. Vinegar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mr., Vinegar, love, you), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tired	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tired	cop
3	both	both	ADV	_	7 tired	advmod
4	very	very	ADV	_	7 tired	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tired	punct
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 tired	advmod
7	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
10	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Vinegar	nmod:desc
11	Vinegar	Vinegar	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tired	conj
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 climb	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 climb	punct
15	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 love	nmod:poss
16	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 climb	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 love	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 climb	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 climb	aux
20	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
21	up	up	ADV	_	20 climb	advmod
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 tree	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 tree	det
24	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 climb	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 drag	punct
26	drag	drag	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	20 climb	parataxis
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 drag	compound:prt
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 door	det
29	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 drag	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 follow	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 follow	cc
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 follow	nsubj
33	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 follow	aux
34	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 climb	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 tired	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 tired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Mr.			both, tired property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Vinegar Mr.				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	climb up in a quote	future	My love		a tree		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into tree=Destination
4	drag up in a quote	infinitive		the door			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme
5	follow in a quote	shall	you				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	love in a quote		My				nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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