More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 35
Up Silver Street he went, and down Gold Street, and at the end of Gold Street is the harbour and the broad Solent beyond.
Who acts: Nor · What happens: go, be · To what, where: Silver Street, harbour, end
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 (Nor), 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 | Up | up | ADP | _ | 3 Street | case |
| 2 | Silver | Silver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Street | compound |
| 3 | Street | Street | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Street | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Street | cc |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 Street | case |
| 9 | Gold | Gold | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Street | compound |
| 10 | Street | Street | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 harbour | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 harbour | cc |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 end | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 end | det |
| 15 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 harbour | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Street | case |
| 17 | Gold | Gold | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Street | compound |
| 18 | Street | Street | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 end | nmod |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 harbour | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 harbour | det |
| 21 | harbour | harbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 Solent | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Solent | det |
| 24 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Solent | amod |
| 25 | Solent | Solent | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 harbour | appos |
| 26 | beyond | beyond | ADV | _ | 25 Solent | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Nor | Silver Street | down Gold Street | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme up street=Initial_Location down street=Destination | |||
| 2 | is a | present | the harbour | at the end of Gold Street | 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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