English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts, sentence 12

When she came to the henwife's, she said, “Lift the lid off the pot and you'll see.”

Who acts: lassie, you · What happens: come, say, lift, see · To what, where: henwife, lid, pot · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Kate Crackernuts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lassie, you), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 henwife	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 henwife	det
6	henwife	henwife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	's	's	PART	_	6 henwife	case
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Lift	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 Lift	punct
13	Lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 lid	det
15	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Lift	obj
16	off	off	ADP	_	18 pot	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 pot	det
18	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Lift	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 see	cc
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 see	nsubj
21	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 see	aux
22	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 Lift	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 see	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 Lift	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come	past	lassie		the henwife	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to henwife=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	lassie			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	lift in a quote	infinitive		the lid	the pot	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lid=Theme off pot=Destination
4	see in a quote	future	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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