English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring, sentence 11
“Thank you kindly, sir,” said the man; and he went in and brought out the lass and gave her to the Baron, who mounted his horse and rode away with her.
Who acts: man, Baron · What happens: thank, say, go in, bring out, give, mount · To what, where: you, lass, York, horse · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Fish and the Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, Baron), 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 | _ | 2 Thank | punct |
| 2 | Thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 Thank | obj |
| 4 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 2 Thank | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sir | punct |
| 6 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Thank | vocative |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thank | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thank | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 went | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | parataxis |
| 16 | in | in | ADV | _ | 15 went | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 brought | cc |
| 18 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 went | conj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 brought | compound:prt |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 lass | det |
| 21 | lass | lass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 brought | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 gave | cc |
| 23 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 went | conj |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 gave | iobj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 Baron | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Baron | det |
| 27 | Baron | Baron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 gave | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 mounted | punct |
| 29 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 mounted | nsubj |
| 30 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 Baron | acl:relcl |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 horse | nmod:poss |
| 32 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 mounted | obj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 rode | cc |
| 34 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 mounted | conj |
| 35 | away | away | ADV | _ | 34 rode | advmod |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 her | case |
| 37 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 rode | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank in a quote | present | you | sir vocative; kindly property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go in | past | man | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | bring out | past | man not said here | the lass | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent lass=Patient | ||||
| 5 | give | past | man not said here | York | to the Baron | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Theme to baron=Recipient | |||
| 6 | mount | past | the Baron | man's horse | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 7 | ride away | past | the Baron not said here | with York; away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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