English Fairy Tales, Earl Mar's Daughter, sentence 4
She looked up and said: “Coo-my-dove, my dear, come down to me and I will give you a golden cage.
Who acts: daughter, Coo, dove · What happens: look up, say, dove, come down, give · To what, where: daughter, golden cage, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Earl Mar's Daughter. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, Coo, dove), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 looked | compound:prt |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 said | cc |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 dove | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 dove | punct |
| 8 | Coo | coo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dove | nsubj |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 dove | punct |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 dove | nmod:poss |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 dove | punct |
| 12 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 come | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dear | punct |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 dear | nmod:poss |
| 15 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 dove | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 come | punct |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 18 | down | down | ADV | _ | 17 come | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 come | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 give | cc |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 give | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 give | aux |
| 24 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 come | conj |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 give | iobj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 cage | det |
| 27 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 cage | amod |
| 28 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 give | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look up | past | daughter | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | daughter not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | dove in a quote | Coo | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | come down in a quote | infinitive | my dove | daughter | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | give in a quote | future | daughter | a golden cage | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient cage=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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