English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 26

The gardener's boy said: “Sure it's the time that my mother takes up the vegetables for the queen's dinner.”

Who acts: boy, gardener, mother · What happens: say, be, take up · To what, where: time · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Nix Nought Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, gardener, mother), 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 gardener	det
2	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boy	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 gardener	case
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 time	punct
8	Sure	sure	INTJ	_	12 time	discourse
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 time	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 time	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 time	det
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	ccomp
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 takes	obj
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 mother	nmod:poss
15	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 takes	nsubj
16	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 time	acl:relcl
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 takes	compound:prt
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 vegetables	det
19	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 takes	obj
20	for	for	ADP	_	24 dinner	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 queen	det
22	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 dinner	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 queen	case
24	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 takes	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 time	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 time	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the gardener's boy			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	gardener	the time		tree rules
3	take up in a quote	present	my mother	the time	for the queen's dinner	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument that=Theme vegetable=Destination

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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