English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 23

And away went the wife to the parlour chimney, and she pulled the rag with the ten pounds in it from the chimney, and she gave the whole sum to the soldier, telling him that her old man was to use as much as he wanted, and to send back the rest.

Who acts: wife, old man, Deary · What happens: go, pull, give, tell, be, want · To what, where: wife, rag, whole sum, soldier, Deary, rest · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack Hannaford. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, old man, Deary), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 went	cc
2	away	away	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wife	det
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 chimney	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 chimney	det
8	parlour	parlour	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chimney	compound
9	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pulled	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 pulled	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 pulled	nsubj
13	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 rag	det
15	rag	rag	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pulled	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 pounds	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 pounds	det
18	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 pounds	nummod
19	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 pulled	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 pulled	obl
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 chimney	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 chimney	det
24	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pulled	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 gave	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 gave	cc
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 gave	nsubj
28	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sum	det
30	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 sum	amod
31	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 gave	obj
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 soldier	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 soldier	det
34	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 gave	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 telling	punct
36	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 gave	advcl
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 telling	iobj
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	44 use	mark
39	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 man	nmod:poss
40	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 man	amod
41	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 use	nsubj
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 use	cop
43	to	to	PART	_	44 use	mark
44	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 telling	xcomp
45	as	as	ADV	_	46 much	advmod
46	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 use	obj
47	as	as	SCONJ	_	49 wanted	mark
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 wanted	nsubj
49	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 much	advcl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 send	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 send	cc
52	to	to	PART	_	53 send	mark
53	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 went	conj
54	back	back	ADV	_	53 send	advmod
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 rest	det
56	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 send	obj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past		the wife			to the parlour chimney; away property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wife=Theme
2	pull	past	wife	the rag		rag	with the ten pounds; from the chimney	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent rag=Theme from chimney=Initial_Location
3	give	past	wife	the whole sum	the soldier			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sum=Theme to soldier=Recipient
4	tell speech: assert	gerund	wife not said here		Deary			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	is not said to happen	past	wife's old man				use property	tree rules
6	want	past	Deary					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
7	send back	to-infinitive		the rest				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=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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