English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 50

“This is what I'll do,” says the little black thing, “I'll come to your window every morning and take the flax and bring it spun at night.”

Who acts: This, little black thing · What happens: be, do, say, come, take, bring · To what, where: window, flax · 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 (This, little black thing), 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	_	4 what	punct
2	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 what	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 what	cop
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 says	nsubj
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 do	nsubj
6	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 do	aux
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 what	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 what	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 what	punct
10	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 thing	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 thing	amod
13	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 thing	amod
14	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 says	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 come	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 come	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 come	nsubj
18	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 come	aux
19	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 says	ccomp
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 window	case
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 window	nmod:poss
22	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 come	obl
23	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	24 morning	det
24	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 come	obl:unmarked
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 take	cc
26	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 come	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 flax	det
28	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 take	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 bring	cc
30	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 take	conj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 bring	obj
32	spun	spin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 bring	xcomp
33	at	at	ADP	_	34 night	case
34	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 spun	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 come	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	This				tree rules
2	do in a quote	future	the little black thing = thing				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	present	the little black thing				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	come in a quote	future	the little black thing = thing		your window	morning	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to window=Initial_Location
5	take in a quote	infinitive	the little black thing = thing not said here	the flax			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flax=Theme
6	bring in a quote	infinitive	the little black thing = thing not said here	flax			tree rules
7	spin in a quote	participle	the little black thing = thing not said here			night	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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