English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 44

“Ye can, can ye? we'll see about that?” said they; and they threw down their picks and ran after him, but couldn't catch up with him, and soon they had to sit down by the roadside to rest.

Who acts: we, hoes · What happens: see, say, throw down, run, not catch up, have · To what, where: picks · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Lazy Jack. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, hoes), 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	_	10 see	punct
2	Ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	3 can	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 see	aux
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 can	punct
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 can	conj
6	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	5 can	nsubj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 can	punct
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 see	nsubj
9	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 see	aux
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
11	about	about	ADP	_	12 that	case
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 see	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 threw	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 threw	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 threw	nsubj
20	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	parataxis
21	down	down	ADP	_	20 threw	compound:prt
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 picks	nmod:poss
23	picks	pick	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 threw	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 ran	cc
25	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 threw	conj
26	after	after	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 ran	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 catch	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 catch	cc
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 catch	aux
31	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 catch	advmod
32	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	conj
33	up	up	ADP	_	32 catch	compound:prt
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 catch	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 had	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 had	cc
38	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	40 had	advmod
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 had	nsubj
40	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	conj
41	to	to	PART	_	42 sit	mark
42	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 had	xcomp
43	down	down	ADP	_	42 sit	compound:prt
44	by	by	ADP	_	46 roadside	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 roadside	det
46	roadside	roadside	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 sit	obl
47	to	to	PART	_	48 rest	mark
48	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 sit	advcl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	can · future	we			about that	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: ask	past	hoes = hoe				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	throw down	past	hoes = hoe	hoes's picks			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pick=Theme
4	run	past	hoes = hoe not said here		after Johnny		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not catch up	could	hoes = hoe not said here			with Johnny	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	have	past	hoes = hoe			soon property	tree rules
7	sit down	to-infinitive	hoes = hoe not said here			by the roadside	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by roadside=Location
8	rest	to-infinitive	hoes = hoe not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	pick		hoes = hoe				nom pick «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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