English Fairy Tales, Fairy Ointment, sentence 21
But she said nothing to nobody, and as soon as the lady was well enough to mind the baby, she asked the old fellow to take her back home.
Who acts: Dame · What happens: say, be, ask, take · To what, where: nothing, old fellow, back · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fairy Ointment. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dame), 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 | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 said | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 nobody | case |
| 6 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 nothing | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 mind | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 mind | cc |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 soon | advmod |
| 10 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 mind | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 lady | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 lady | det |
| 13 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 mind | obl |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 mind | cop |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 enough | advmod |
| 16 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 18 mind | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 mind | mark |
| 18 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 baby | det |
| 20 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 mind | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 asked | punct |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 asked | nsubj |
| 23 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 fellow | det |
| 25 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 fellow | amod |
| 26 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 asked | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 take | mark |
| 28 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 asked | xcomp |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 back | nmod:poss |
| 30 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 take | obj |
| 31 | home | home | ADV | _ | 28 take | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Dame | nothing | to nobody | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | as the lady; enough, mind, soon property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Dame | the old fellow | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent fellow=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | Dame not said here | Dame's back | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=Theme |
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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