English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick, sentence 12

Now, I must tell you that near his home dwelt a poor widow with an only daughter.

Who acts: I · What happens: tell, dwell · To what, where: you, poor widow, home · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 tell	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 dwelt	mark
8	near	near	ADP	_	10 home	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 home	nmod:poss
10	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dwelt	obl
11	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	ccomp
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 widow	det
13	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 widow	amod
14	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dwelt	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	18 daughter	case
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 daughter	det
17	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 daughter	amod
18	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dwelt	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	must	I		you		now		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	dwell	past		a poor widow		Jack's home		with a only daughter	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme widow=Location

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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