English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 4

“Darter,” says she, “put you them there pies on the shelf, and leave 'em there a little, and they'll come again.”--She meant, you know, the crust would get soft.

Who acts: Darter, pies, woman, you, crust · What happens: say, put, leave, come, mean, know · To what, where: woman, you, shelf, 'em · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Tom Tit Tot. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Darter, pies, woman, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Darter	punct
2	Darter	darter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Darter	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Darter	punct
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 says	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 put	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 put	punct
9	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 says	ccomp
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 put	obj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 put	obj
12	there	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Typo=Yes	13 pies	nmod:poss
13	pies	pie	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 put	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 shelf	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 shelf	det
16	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 put	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 leave	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 leave	cc
19	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 put	parataxis
20	'em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 leave	obj
21	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 leave	advmod
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 little	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 leave	obl:unmarked
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 come	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 come	cc
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 come	nsubj
27	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 come	aux
28	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 says	parataxis
29	again	again	ADV	_	28 come	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 come	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	28 come	punct
32	--	--	PUNCT	_	34 meant	punct
33	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 meant	nsubj
34	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 says	parataxis
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 know	punct
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 know	nsubj
37	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 meant	ccomp
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 get	punct
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 crust	det
40	crust	crust	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 get	nsubj
41	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 get	aux
42	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 meant	conj
43	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 get	xcomp
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Darter	woman				tree rules
2	put in a quote	infinitive		you	the shelf			tree rules
3	leave in a quote	infinitive		'em = they	there		a little obl:unmarked	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	come in a quote	future	pies = pie			again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	mean	past	woman					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	know	present	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	get	would	the crust				soft property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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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