English Fairy Tales, The Magpie's Nest, sentence 21

Still the turtle-dove cried: “Take two, Taffy, take two-o-o-o.”

Who acts: turtle dove · What happens: still, cry, take · To what, where: 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: who acts (turtle 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	Still	still	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 cried	advmod
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 cried	nsubj
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 Take	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 Take	punct
9	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 cried	ccomp
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 Take	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Taffy	punct
12	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Take	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 take	punct
14	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 Take	conj
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 o	nummod
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 o	punct
17	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	14 take	obl
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 o	punct
19	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	21 o	case
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 o	punct
21	o	o	INTJ	_	17 o	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 Take	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	still	infinitive				vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	cry speech: express	past	the turtle dove			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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