More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 40
The tide rose again, and the Piper stepped on shore, but never a rat followed.
Who acts: tide, Piper, rat · What happens: rise, step, not follow · To what, where: shore
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 (tide, Piper, rat), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 tide | det |
| 2 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rose | nsubj |
| 3 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 rose | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stepped | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 stepped | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Piper | det |
| 8 | Piper | Piper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 stepped | nsubj |
| 9 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rose | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 shore | case |
| 11 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stepped | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 followed | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 followed | cc |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 followed | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 rat | det |
| 16 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 followed | nsubj |
| 17 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 stepped | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the tide | again | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | step | past | the Piper | shore | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shore=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | not follow | participle | a rat | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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