More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 94
Aye they travelled, and on they travelled, till the lady grew faint with hunger. "
Who acts: grief, lady · What happens: travel, grow
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grief, lady), 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 | Aye | aye | INTJ | _ | 3 travelled | discourse |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 travelled | nsubj |
| 3 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 travelled | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 travelled | cc |
| 6 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 8 travelled | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 travelled | nsubj |
| 8 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 travelled | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 grew | punct |
| 10 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 13 grew | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lady | det |
| 12 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 grew | nsubj |
| 13 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 travelled | conj |
| 14 | faint | faint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 grew | xcomp |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 hunger | case |
| 16 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 grew | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 travelled | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 travelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | past | grief | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | travel | past | grief | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | grow | past | the lady | with hunger; faint property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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