English Fairy Tales, III. the Rose Tree., sentence 3

“My mother killed me, My father picked my bones, My little sister buried me, Under the marble stones.”

Who acts: mother, father, little sister · What happens: kill, pick, bury · To what, where: me, bones, marble stones

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, III. the Rose Tree.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, father, little sister), 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 killed	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mother	nmod:poss
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 killed	nsubj
4	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 killed	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 picked	punct
7	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 father	nmod:poss
8	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 picked	nsubj
9	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 killed	conj
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 bones	nmod:poss
11	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 picked	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 buried	punct
13	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 sister	nmod:poss
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 sister	amod
15	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 buried	nsubj
16	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 picked	conj
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 buried	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 stones	punct
19	Under	under	ADP	_	22 stones	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 stones	det
21	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stones	compound
22	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 buried	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 killed	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 killed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	kill in a quote	past	My mother	me		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	pick in a quote	past	My father	my bones		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient
3	bury in a quote	past	My little sister	me	the marble stones	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme under stone=Destination

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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