More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 73
So he went to market and bought her ten red cows.
Who acts: stranger · What happens: go, buy · To what, where: market, ten red cows, mother
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 (stranger), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 market | case |
| 5 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 bought | cc |
| 7 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bought | iobj |
| 9 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 cows | nummod |
| 10 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cows | amod |
| 11 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 bought | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | stranger | market | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to market=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | buy | past | stranger not said here | ten red cows | mother | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary cow=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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