English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, sentence 23

But the gentleman burst out a-laughing, and reached up and pulled out the mallet, and then he said: “I've travelled many miles, and I never met three such big sillies as you three before; and now I shall start out on my travels again, and when I can find three bigger sillies than you three, then I'll come back and marry your daughter.”

Who acts: gentleman · What happens: burst out, laugh, reach up, pull out, say, travell · To what, where: mallet, many miles, three such big sillies, three bigger sillies, daughter · 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 (gentleman), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 burst	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gentleman	det
3	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burst	nsubj
4	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 burst	compound:prt
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 laughing	det
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 a	punct
8	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 burst	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 reached	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 reached	cc
11	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 burst	conj
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 reached	compound:prt
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 pulled	cc
14	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 reached	conj
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 pulled	compound:prt
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 mallet	det
17	mallet	mallet	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pulled	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 said	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 said	nsubj
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 burst	conj
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 travelled	punct
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 travelled	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 travelled	nsubj
26	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 travelled	aux
27	travelled	travell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 said	conj
28	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 miles	amod
29	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 travelled	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 met	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 met	cc
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 met	nsubj
33	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	34 met	advmod
34	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 travelled	conj
35	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 sillies	nummod
36	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 sillies	amod
37	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 sillies	amod
38	sillies	silly	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 met	obj
39	as	as	ADP	_	41 three	case
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 three	nsubj
41	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 met	obl
42	before	before	ADV	_	41 three	advmod
43	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 start	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 start	cc
45	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	48 start	advmod
46	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 start	nsubj
47	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 start	aux
48	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 burst	conj
49	out	out	ADP	_	48 start	compound:prt
50	on	on	SCONJ	_	52 travels	mark
51	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 travels	nmod:poss
52	travels	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 start	advcl
53	again	again	ADV	_	52 travels	advmod
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 find	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 find	cc
56	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	59 find	advmod
57	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	59 find	nsubj
58	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	59 find	aux
59	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 start	parataxis
60	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	62 sillies	nummod
61	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	62 sillies	amod
62	sillies	silly	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 find	obj
63	than	than	ADP	_	64 you	case
64	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	62 sillies	nmod
65	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	62 sillies	flat
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	70 come	punct
67	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	70 come	advmod
68	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	70 come	nsubj
69	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	70 come	aux
70	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	59 find	conj
71	back	back	ADV	_	70 come	advmod
72	and	and	CCONJ	_	73 marry	cc
73	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	70 come	conj
74	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	75 daughter	nmod:poss
75	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	73 marry	obj
76	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 burst	punct
77	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 burst	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	burst out	past	the gentleman				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	laugh	gerund	the gentleman not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	reach up	past	the gentleman not said here				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	pull out	participle	the gentleman not said here	the mallet			tree rules
5	say speech: assert	past	gentleman		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	travell in a quote	present · perfect	gentleman	many miles			tree rules
7	not meet in a quote	past	gentleman	three such big sillies		as three	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silly=Co-Agent
8	start out in a quote	shall	gentleman		now		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
9	travel in a quote	present	gentleman not said here		again		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	find in a quote	can	gentleman	three bigger sillies		than you	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silly=Topic
11	come back in a quote	future	gentleman		then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
12	marry in a quote	infinitive	gentleman not said here	your daughter			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient

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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