English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 98

“A-why,” says he, “I was out a-hunting to-day, and I got away to a place in the wood I'd never seen before And there was an old chalk-pit.

Who acts: I, old chalk pit · What happens: say, be out, hunt, get away, not see, be · To what, where: 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 (I, old chalk pit), 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	_	7 says	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 why	det
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 A	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 says	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 why	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 why	punct
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 says	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 was	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 was	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 was	nsubj
12	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 says	conj
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 was	compound:prt
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 hunting	det
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 a	punct
16	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 was	advcl
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 day	case
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 to	punct
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hunting	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 got	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 got	cc
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 got	nsubj
23	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 says	conj
24	away	away	ADV	_	23 got	advmod
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 place	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 place	det
27	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 got	obl
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 wood	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 wood	det
30	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 place	nmod
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 seen	nsubj
32	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 seen	aux
33	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	34 seen	advmod
34	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 got	advcl
35	before	before	SCONJ	_	34 seen	advmod
36	And	and	CCONJ	_	38 was	cc
37	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	38 was	expl
38	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 seen	conj
39	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 pit	det
40	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 pit	amod
41	chalk	chalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 pit	compound
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 chalk	punct
43	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 was	nsubj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present		king				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic
2	be out in a quote	past	I					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hunt in a quote	gerund	I not said here			day		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	get away in a quote	past	I				to a place in the wood; away property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not see in a quote	would	I					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	be in a quote	past	a old chalk pit		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP 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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