More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 88
But the wind blew away meal and bran and all--so there was an end of it.
Who acts: wind, end · What happens: blow away, be · To what, where: meal
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 (wind, end), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 blew | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wind | det |
| 3 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blew | nsubj |
| 4 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 blew | advmod |
| 6 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blew | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 bran | cc |
| 8 | bran | bran | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 meal | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 all | cc |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 meal | conj |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 was | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 was | advmod |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 was | expl |
| 14 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 blew | parataxis |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 end | det |
| 16 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 was | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 end | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 blew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow away | past | the wind | meal and bran | away property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent meal=Patient | |||
| 2 | be | past | a end of wind | there | vn exist-47.1 «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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