English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 20

“Once more, and but once more,” he said to the Warlock, “tell how man or mother's son may rescue Burd Ellen and her brothers twain.”

Who acts: Childe, man · What happens: say, tell, rescue · To what, where: Warlock, Burd twain · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Childe Rowland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Childe, man), 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	_	12 said	punct
2	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 more	advmod
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 said	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 more	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 more	cc
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 more	cc
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 more	advmod
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 more	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 more	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 more	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 Warlock	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Warlock	det
15	Warlock	Warlock	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tell	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 tell	punct
18	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
19	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	26 rescue	advmod
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 rescue	nsubj
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 son	cc
22	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 son	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 mother	case
24	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 man	conj
25	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 rescue	aux
26	rescue	rescue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 tell	ccomp
27	Burd	Burd	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 twain	compound
28	Ellen	Ellen	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Burd	flat
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 brothers	cc
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 brothers	nmod:poss
31	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 Burd	conj
32	twain	twain	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 rescue	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 tell	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Childe		the Warlock	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to warlock=Recipient clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	rescue in a quote	may	man or mother's son	Burd twain		vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twain=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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