English Fairy Tales, IV. Old Woman and Pig., sentence 7

Newell, _Games and Songs of American Children_, gives a game named “Club-fist” (No. 75), founded on this, and in his notes refers to German, Danish, and Spanish variants.

Who acts: Newell, game, American Children · What happens: give, name, found, refer, sing, note · To what, where: game, Club fist, No., this, Spanish variants, German

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IV. Old Woman and Pig.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Newell, game, American Children), 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	Newell	Newell	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 gives	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Newell	punct
3	_	_	PUNCT	_	4 Games	punct
4	Games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Newell	appos
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Songs	cc
6	Songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 Games	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 Children	case
8	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Children	amod
9	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 Songs	nmod
10	_	_	PUNCT	_	4 Games	punct
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Newell	punct
12	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 game	det
14	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gives	obj
15	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 game	acl
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 fist	punct
17	Club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fist	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 fist	punct
19	fist	fist	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 named	obl
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 fist	punct
21	(	(	PUNCT	_	22 No.	punct
22	No.	no.	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Sing	12 gives	obj
23	75	75	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	22 No.	flat
24	)	)	PUNCT	_	22 No.	punct
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 founded	punct
26	founded	found	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 No.	acl
27	on	on	ADP	_	28 this	case
28	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 founded	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 refers	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 refers	cc
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 notes	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 notes	nmod:poss
33	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 refers	obl
34	refers	refer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 gives	conj
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 German	case
36	German	German	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 refers	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 Danish	punct
38	Danish	Danish	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 German	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 variants	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 variants	cc
41	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 variants	amod
42	variants	variant	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 refers	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 gives	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	give	present	Newell	a game			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent game=Recipient no.=Theme
2	name	participle	a game not said here	Club fist			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	found	participle		No. not said here		this	vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on this=Source
4	refer	present	Newell not said here	Spanish variants	German and Danish	Newell's notes	vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to german=Co-Theme
5	sing		American Children				nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent
6	note		Newell				nom note «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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