More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 94

All went well for a bit, till one day when she had brewed her ale and put it in the barrel, a big black dog came in and looked up in her face.

Who acts: big black dog · What happens: go, brew, put, come in, look up · To what, where: mother, ale, barrel

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 (big black dog), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 went	advmod
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 went	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 bit	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bit	det
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 brewed	punct
8	till	till	ADP	_	10 day	case
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 day	nummod
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 brewed	obl
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 brewed	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 brewed	nsubj:pass
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 brewed	aux
14	brewed	brew	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 went	parataxis
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 ale	nmod:poss
16	ale	ale	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 brewed	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 put	cc
18	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 brewed	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 put	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 barrel	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 barrel	det
22	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 put	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 came	punct
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 dog	det
25	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 dog	amod
26	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 dog	amod
27	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 came	nsubj
28	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
29	in	in	ADV	_	28 came	advmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 looked	cc
31	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 came	conj
32	up	up	ADP	_	31 looked	compound:prt
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 face	case
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 face	nmod:poss
35	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 looked	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past					for a bit; well property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for bit=Beneficiary
2	brew	past · perfect · passive		mother		day		vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary ale=Product
3	put	infinitive		ale	the barrel			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in barrel=Destination
4	come in	past	a big black dog					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	look up	past	a big black dog not said here				in mother's face	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in face=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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