English Fairy Tales, Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse, sentence 24
“Then,” said the walnut-tree, “I'll shed my leaves,” so the walnut-tree shed all its beautiful green leaves.
Who acts: walnut tree · What happens: say, shed · To what, where: leaves · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (walnut tree), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Then | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 7 | walnut | walnut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tree | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 walnut | punct |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 shed | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 shed | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 shed | nsubj |
| 13 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 shed | aux |
| 14 | shed | shed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 leaves | nmod:poss |
| 16 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 shed | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 shed | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 shed | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 shed | det |
| 21 | walnut | walnut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tree | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 walnut | punct |
| 23 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 shed | compound |
| 24 | shed | shed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 leaves | det:predet |
| 26 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 leaves | nmod:poss |
| 27 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 leaves | amod |
| 28 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 leaves | amod |
| 29 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 shed | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the walnut tree | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | shed in a quote | future | the walnut tree = tree | my leaves | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location leaf=Source |
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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