More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 125
Then Jan and his wife got down from the tree, took as many money-bags as they could carry on the door, and went straight home.
Who acts: Jan, door · What happens: get down, take, carry, go · To what, where: tree, many money bags, door
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 (Jan, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 got | advmod |
| 2 | Jan | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 got | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 wife | cc |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 wife | nmod:poss |
| 5 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Jan | conj |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 6 got | advmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 tree | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tree | det |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 got | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 took | punct |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 got | conj |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 many | advmod |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 bags | amod |
| 15 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bags | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 money | punct |
| 17 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 took | obj |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 carry | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 carry | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 carry | aux |
| 21 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 took | advcl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 door | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 door | det |
| 24 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 carry | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 went | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 went | cc |
| 27 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 got | conj |
| 28 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 29 home | advmod |
| 29 | home | home | ADV | _ | 27 went | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get down | past | Jan and gentleman's wife | the tree | then | down property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||
| 2 | take | past | Jan and gentleman's wife not said here | many money bags | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme | ||||
| 3 | carry | could | door | the door | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | go | past | Jan and gentleman's wife not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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