More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 11

Round the bottom of the hill she went, sobbing and seeking a passage over, till at last she came to a smith's house; and the smith promised, if she would serve him seven years, he would make her iron shoon, wherewith she could climb over the glassy hill.

Who acts: lady, smith · What happens: go, sob, seek over, come, promise, serve · To what, where: bottom, passage, last, smith, iron shoon, glassy hill

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, smith), 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	Round	round	ADP	_	3 bottom	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bottom	det
3	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 hill	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hill	det
6	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bottom	nmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 went	nsubj
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sobbing	punct
10	sobbing	sob	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 went	advcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 seeking	cc
12	seeking	seek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 sobbing	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 passage	det
14	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seeking	obj
15	over	over	ADV	_	12 seeking	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
17	till	till	SCONJ	_	21 came	mark
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 last	case
19	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 came	obl
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 came	nsubj
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 went	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	26 house	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 smith	det
24	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 house	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 smith	case
26	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 promised	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 promised	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 smith	det
30	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 promised	nsubj
31	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 went	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 serve	punct
33	if	if	SCONJ	_	36 serve	mark
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 serve	nsubj
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 serve	aux
36	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 promised	parataxis
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 serve	obj
38	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 years	nummod
39	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 serve	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 make	punct
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 make	nsubj
42	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 make	aux
43	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 promised	parataxis
44	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 shoon	nmod:poss
45	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 shoon	compound
46	shoon	shoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 make	obj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 climb	punct
48	wherewith	wherewith	ADV	PronType=Int	51 climb	advmod
49	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 climb	nsubj
50	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 climb	aux
51	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 make	conj
52	over	over	ADP	_	55 hill	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 hill	det
54	glassy	glassy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 hill	amod
55	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 climb	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	lady		the bottom of the hill			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round bottom=Initial_Location
2	sob	gerund	lady not said here					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	seek over	gerund	lady not said here	a passage			over property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passage=Theme
4	come	past	lady		last		to a smith's house	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location
5	promise speech: promise	past	the smith					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	serve a condition, not said to happen	would	lady	smith		year		vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Attribute
7	make	would	smith	lady's iron shoon				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoon=Product
8	climb	could	lady		the glassy hill		wherewith property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over hill=Trajectory

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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