More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 135

She was by a park-paling, and she was tossing her ball, and it went up, and up, and up, till it went fair over the paling; and when she climbed up to look, the ball ran along the green grass, and it went right forward to the door of the house, and the ball went in and she saw it no more.

Who acts: bonny, Ball · What happens: be, toss, go up, go, climb up, look · To what, where: ball, green grass, 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 (bonny, Ball), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 paling	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 paling	cop
3	by	by	ADP	_	7 paling	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 paling	det
5	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 paling	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 park	punct
7	paling	paling	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tossing	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tossing	cc
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 tossing	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 tossing	aux
12	tossing	toss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 paling	acl
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 ball	nmod:poss
14	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tossing	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 went	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 went	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 went	nsubj
18	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 paling	parataxis
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 went	compound:prt
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 up	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 up	cc
22	up	up	ADV	_	18 went	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 up	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 up	cc
25	up	up	ADV	_	18 went	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 went	punct
27	till	till	SCONJ	_	29 went	mark
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 went	nsubj
29	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 went	conj
30	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 went	xcomp
31	over	over	ADP	_	33 paling	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 paling	det
33	paling	paling	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fair	obl
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 climbed	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 climbed	cc
36	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	38 climbed	advmod
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 climbed	nsubj
38	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 went	conj
39	up	up	ADP	_	38 climbed	compound:prt
40	to	to	PART	_	41 look	mark
41	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 climbed	advcl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 ran	punct
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 ball	det
44	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 ran	nsubj
45	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 look	conj
46	along	along	ADP	_	49 grass	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 grass	det
48	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 grass	amod
49	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 ran	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 went	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 went	cc
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 went	nsubj
53	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 climbed	conj
54	right	right	ADV	_	55 forward	advmod
55	forward	forward	ADV	_	53 went	advmod
56	to	to	ADP	_	58 door	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 door	det
58	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 went	obl
59	of	of	ADP	_	61 house	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 house	det
61	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 door	nmod
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 went	punct
63	and	and	CCONJ	_	66 went	cc
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 ball	det
65	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 went	nsubj
66	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 climbed	parataxis
67	in	in	ADV	_	66 went	advmod
68	and	and	CCONJ	_	70 saw	cc
69	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	70 saw	nsubj
70	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	66 went	conj
71	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	70 saw	obj
72	no	no	ADV	_	73 more	advmod
73	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	70 saw	obj
74	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 paling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	bonny			by a park paling	tree rules
2	toss	past · progressive	bonny	bonny's ball			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Patient
3	go up	past	Ball				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	go	past	Ball			fair property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	climb up	past	bonny				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	look	to-infinitive	bonny not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
7	run	past	the ball		the green grass		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along grass=Trajectory
8	go	past	Ball		the door of the house	forward property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location
9	go in	past	the ball				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	see	past	bonny	Ball			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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