English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 102

And there was no one left behind there only the cook and another maid with her; and the little red men asked them which would they rather--go, or stop behind? and they both said: “I will go with you;” and the little men told them to run upstairs quick.

Who acts: one, little red men, man, little men · What happens: leave behind, be, go, stop, say, tell · To what, where: cook · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, little red men, man, little men), 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 was	cc
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 asked	cop
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 one	det
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
6	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 one	acl
7	behind	behind	ADV	_	6 left	advmod
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 left	advmod
9	only	only	ADV	_	11 cook	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cook	det
11	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 left	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 maid	cc
13	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	14 maid	det
14	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cook	conj
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 her	case
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 maid	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 asked	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 asked	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 men	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 men	amod
21	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 men	amod
22	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 asked	nsubj
23	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 asked	obj
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 go	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 go	aux
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 go	nsubj
28	rather	rather	ADV	_	30 go	advmod
29	--	--	PUNCT	_	28 rather	punct
30	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 asked	ccomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 stop	punct
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 stop	cc
33	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 go	conj
34	behind	behind	ADV	_	33 stop	advmod
35	?	?	PUNCT	_	33 stop	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 said	cc
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 said	nsubj
38	both	both	ADV	_	39 said	advmod
39	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 asked	conj
40	:	:	PUNCT	_	44 go	punct
41	“	"	PUNCT	_	44 go	punct
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 go	nsubj
43	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 go	aux
44	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 said	ccomp
45	with	with	ADP	_	46 you	case
46	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	44 go	obl
47	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 go	punct
48	”	"	PUNCT	_	44 go	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 told	cc
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 men	det
51	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 men	amod
52	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 told	nsubj
53	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 asked	conj
54	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 told	iobj
55	to	to	PART	_	56 run	mark
56	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 told	xcomp
57	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	_	56 run	advmod
58	quick	quick	ADV	_	56 run	advmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave behind	participle	no one not said here	the cook and another maid with maid		there	behind property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	be speech: ask	past	the little red men				ask property	tree rules
3	go	would						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	stop	infinitive					behind property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	say speech: assert	past	man				both property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	go in a quote	future	man				with you	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with you=Beneficiary
7	tell speech: assert	past	the little men		cook			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
8	run not said to happen	to-infinitive	the little men not said here				quick, upstairs property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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