English Fairy Tales, The Magpie's Nest, sentence 19
But the turtle-dove kept on saying: “Take two, Taffy, take two-o-o-o.”
What happens: keep, say, take · To what, where: turtle dove, two · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Magpie's Nest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 6 kept | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dove | det |
| 3 | turtle | turtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dove | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 turtle | punct |
| 5 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 8 saying | mark |
| 8 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 kept | advcl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 Take | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Take | punct |
| 11 | Take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 saying | ccomp |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 Take | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Taffy | punct |
| 14 | Taffy | Taffy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Take | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 take | punct |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 Take | conj |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 o | nummod |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 o | punct |
| 19 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 16 take | obl |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 o | punct |
| 21 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 23 o | case |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 o | punct |
| 23 | o | o | INTJ | _ | 19 o | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 Take | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | participle · passive | the turtle dove | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | take in a quote | infinitive | two | Taffy obl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take in a quote | infinitive | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: 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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