More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 13
Well they did, and there was a fair stand-up fight, but in the end the rats were too many, and the pussies were regularly driven from the field.
Who acts: people, fair up fight, rats · What happens: do, be, drive · To what, where: end, pussies, field
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 (people, fair up fight, rats), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 3 did | discourse |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 was | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 was | cc |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 was | expl |
| 7 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 fight | det |
| 9 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fight | amod |
| 10 | stand | stand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 up | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 up | punct |
| 12 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fight | compound |
| 13 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 was | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 many | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 many | cc |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 end | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 end | det |
| 18 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 many | obl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 rats | det |
| 20 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 many | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 many | cop |
| 22 | too | too | ADV | _ | 23 many | advmod |
| 23 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 did | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 driven | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 driven | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 pussies | det |
| 27 | pussies | pussy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 driven | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 driven | aux:pass |
| 29 | regularly | regularly | ADV | _ | 30 driven | advmod |
| 30 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 many | conj |
| 31 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 field | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 field | det |
| 33 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 driven | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | people | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | be | past | a fair up fight | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the rats | in the end | many property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | drive | past · passive | the pussies | the field | regularly property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme from field=Trajectory |
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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