English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 7

Well, off he went in his cart to market, and the wife said to herself: “I will keep the ten pounds quite safe from thieves;” so she tied it up in a rag, and she put the rag up the parlour chimney.

Who acts: man, wife · What happens: go, say, keep, tie up, put up · To what, where: cart, wife, ten pounds, market, rag · 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 (man, wife), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	off	off	ADP	_	5 went	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 cart	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 cart	nmod:poss
8	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 market	case
10	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wife	det
14	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	parataxis
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 herself	case
17	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 said	obl
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 keep	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 keep	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 keep	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 keep	aux
22	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 pounds	det
24	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 pounds	nummod
25	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 keep	obj
26	quite	quite	ADV	_	27 safe	advmod
27	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 keep	xcomp
28	from	from	ADP	_	29 thieves	case
29	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 safe	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct
32	so	so	ADV	_	34 tied	advmod
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 tied	nsubj
34	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 tied	obj
36	up	up	ADP	_	34 tied	compound:prt
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 rag	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 rag	det
39	rag	rag	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 tied	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 put	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 put	cc
42	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 put	nsubj
43	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 rag	det
45	rag	rag	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 put	obj
46	up	up	ADP	_	43 put	compound:prt
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 chimney	det
48	parlour	parlour	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 chimney	compound
49	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 put	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	man			man's cart	to market	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to market=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	the wife		wife			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient
3	keep in a quote	future	the wife = wife	the ten pounds			safe property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pound=Theme
4	tie up	past	wife	market		a rag		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	put up	past	wife	the rag			the parlour chimney obl	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent rag=Goal

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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