English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring, sentence 39
But he was not to be put off that way; and he took out the girl for a walk, as he said, along the cliffs.
Who acts: brother · What happens: not put off, take out, say · To what, where: brother, girl · 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 (brother), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 put | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 put | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 put | aux:pass |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 put | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 put | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 put | aux:pass |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 put | compound:prt |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 way | det |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 took | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 took | nsubj |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 put | parataxis |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 took | compound:prt |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 girl | det |
| 17 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 walk | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 walk | det |
| 20 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 said | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 said | nsubj |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 took | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 cliffs | punct |
| 26 | along | along | ADP | _ | 28 cliffs | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 cliffs | det |
| 28 | cliffs | cliff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 said | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not put off | past · passive | brother | that way obl:unmarked | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal | ||||
| 2 | take out | past | brother | the girl | for a walk | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | brother | along the cliffs | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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