More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 117
One night they came to a big hill, and there was a high tree at the foot.
Who acts: door · What happens: come, be · To what, where: big hill, high tree, foot
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 night | nummod |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 hill | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hill | det |
| 7 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hill | amod |
| 8 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tree | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 was | cc |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 was | expl |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 tree | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 tree | det |
| 14 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tree | amod |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 foot | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 foot | det |
| 18 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tree | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | door | a big hill | night | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hill=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | is a | past | a high tree | the foot | tree rules |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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