English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well, sentence 22
Then up came a second and a third head, saying the same as the former.
What happens: come, say · To what, where: same · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Three Heads of the Well. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | up | up | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 second | det |
| 5 | second | second | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 head | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 head | det |
| 8 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 head | amod |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 second | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 saying | punct |
| 11 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 came | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 same | det |
| 13 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 saying | obj |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 former | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 former | det |
| 16 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 saying | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | then; second | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | the same | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent same=Topic |
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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