English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 93

In he came, and when he sees the five skeins, he says, says he,

Who acts: king · What happens: come, see, say · To what, where: five skeins, king · 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 (king), 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	In	in	SCONJ	_	3 came	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 says	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 says	cc
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 sees	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sees	nsubj
8	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 says	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 skeins	det
10	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 skeins	nummod
11	skeins	skein	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sees	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sees	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 says	nsubj
14	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 says	punct
16	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 says	conj
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 says	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	come	past	king		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	present	king	the five skeins	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer skein=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	present	king		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	present	king not said here	king	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=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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