English Fairy Tales, The Cauld Lad of Hilton, sentence 19

They saw the Brownie come up, and seeing the hood and cloak, put them on, and frisk about, dancing on one leg and saying:

Who acts: man, Brownie · What happens: see, come up, put on, frisk, dance, say · To what, where: hood, man, one leg · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Cauld Lad of Hilton. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, Brownie), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Brownie	det
4	Brownie	Brownie	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 come	nsubj
5	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	ccomp
6	up	up	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 put	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 put	cc
9	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 put	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hood	det
11	hood	hood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 seeing	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 cloak	cc
13	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hood	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 seeing	punct
15	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 come	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 put	obj
17	on	on	ADP	_	15 put	compound:prt
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 frisk	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 frisk	cc
20	frisk	frisk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 saw	conj
21	about	about	ADV	_	20 frisk	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 dancing	punct
23	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 frisk	advcl
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 leg	case
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 leg	nummod
26	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 dancing	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 saying	cc
28	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 dancing	conj
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	man				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	come up	present	the Brownie				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	gerund		the hood and cloak			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hood=Stimulus
4	put on	infinitive	the Brownie not said here	man			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal
5	frisk	infinitive	man not said here			about property	vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent
6	dance	gerund	man not said here		one leg		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=Location
7	say speech: assert	gerund	man not said here				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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