English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, sentence 16

“Dear, dear, dear! so it would!” said the father, and he sat himself down aside of the other two, and started a-crying.

Who acts: father · What happens: say, sit down, start, cry · To what, where: father · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Three Sillies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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	_	2 Dear	punct
2	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dear	punct
4	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Dear	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dear	punct
6	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dear	conj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Dear	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 would	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 would	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 would	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 would	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 father	det
15	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sat	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sat	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sat	nsubj
19	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	conj
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 sat	obj
21	down	down	ADP	_	19 sat	compound:prt
22	aside	aside	ADV	_	19 sat	advmod
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 two	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 two	det
25	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 two	amod
26	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 sat	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 started	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 started	cc
29	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 sat	conj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 crying	det
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 a	punct
32	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 started	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the father			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	sit down	past	father	father	of the other two; aside property	tree rules
3	start	past	father not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	cry speech: express	gerund	father not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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