English Fairy Tales, The Rose-tree, sentence 38

“My wicked mother slew me, My dear father ate me, My little brother whom I love Sits below, and I sing above Stick, stock, stone dead.”

Who acts: wicked mother, dear father, cobbler · What happens: slay, eat, love, sing · To what, where: cobbler, Sits, Stick

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, 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 (wicked mother, dear father, cobbler), 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	_	5 slew	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mother	nmod:poss
3	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mother	amod
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 slew	nsubj
5	slew	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 slew	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ate	punct
8	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 father	nmod:poss
9	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 father	amod
10	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ate	nsubj
11	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 slew	conj
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 ate	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 whom	punct
14	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 brother	nmod:poss
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 brother	amod
16	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 whom	nsubj
17	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 ate	obl
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 love	nsubj
19	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 whom	acl:relcl
20	Sits	Sit	PROPN	Number=Plur	19 love	obj
21	below	below	ADV	_	20 Sits	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sing	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 sing	cc
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 sing	nsubj
25	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 slew	conj
26	above	above	ADP	_	27 Stick	case
27	Stick	Stick	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 sing	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 stock	punct
29	stock	stock	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Stick	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 stone	punct
31	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Stick	conj
32	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 stone	amod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 slew	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 slew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	slay in a quote	past	My wicked mother	the cobbler = cobbler		vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
2	eat in a quote	past	My dear father	the cobbler = cobbler		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
3	love in a quote	present	the cobbler = cobbler	Sits		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sit=Stimulus
4	sing speech: express in a quote	present	the cobbler = cobbler		Stick and stock and stone	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above stick=Location

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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