English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 44
“Quick, quick,” called out the giant's daughter, “take my comb from my hair and throw it down.”
What happens: call out, take, throw down · To what, where: daughter, comb, hair · 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: 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 quick | punct |
| 2 | Quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 quick | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Quick | punct |
| 4 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 quick | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 quick | punct |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 quick | conj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 called | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 giant | det |
| 10 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 giant | case |
| 12 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 called | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 quick | parataxis |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 comb | nmod:poss |
| 17 | comb | comb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 hair | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 hair | nmod:poss |
| 20 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 throw | cc |
| 22 | throw | throw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 take | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 throw | obj |
| 24 | down | down | ADP | _ | 22 throw | compound:prt |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 quick | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 quick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call out speech: assert | participle | the giant's daughter | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | take in a quote | infinitive | my comb | my hair | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent comb=Theme from hair=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | throw down in a quote | infinitive | comb | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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