More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 64
And so it was, the men fell to disputing which had suffered the most by her, and when the master came up all would be heard at once and none listened to him, and it came to blows all round, and the first they knew they had shoved one another into the pond.
Who acts: virtue, girl, master, none, first, blows · What happens: be, dispute, suffer, come up, hear, listen · To what, where: man, blows, one, pond · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (virtue, girl, master, none), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 fell | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 fell | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fell | cop |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fell | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 men | det |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fell | nsubj |
| 8 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 10 disputing | mark |
| 10 | disputing | dispute | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 fell | advcl |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 suffered | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 suffered | aux |
| 13 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 disputing | acl:relcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 most | det |
| 15 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 13 suffered | advmod |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 her | case |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 suffered | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 heard | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 heard | cc |
| 20 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 23 came | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 master | det |
| 22 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | nsubj |
| 23 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 heard | advcl |
| 24 | up | up | ADV | _ | 23 came | advmod |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 heard | advmod |
| 26 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 heard | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 heard | aux:pass |
| 28 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 fell | parataxis |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 once | case |
| 30 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 28 heard | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 listened | cc |
| 32 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 33 listened | nsubj |
| 33 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 heard | conj |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 him | case |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 listened | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 came | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 came | cc |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 came | nsubj |
| 39 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fell | conj |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 blows | case |
| 41 | blows | blow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 came | obl |
| 42 | all | all | ADV | _ | 43 round | advmod |
| 43 | round | round | ADV | _ | 39 came | advmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 knew | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 knew | cc |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 first | det |
| 47 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 49 knew | nsubj |
| 48 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 knew | nsubj |
| 49 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fell | conj |
| 50 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 shoved | nsubj |
| 51 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 52 shoved | aux |
| 52 | shoved | shove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 49 knew | ccomp |
| 53 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 52 shoved | obj |
| 54 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 53 one | fixed |
| 55 | into | into | ADP | _ | 57 pond | case |
| 56 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 57 pond | det |
| 57 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 shoved | obl |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | virtue | fall property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dispute | gerund | virtue not said here | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | suffer | past · perfect · passive | girl | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | come up | past | the master | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | hear | would · passive | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus» | ||||||
| 6 | listen | past | none | man | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to he=Theme | ||||
| 7 | come | past | virtue | blows | round property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to blow=Initial_Location | |||
| 8 | know | past | the first | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 9 | shove | past · perfect | blows = blow | one | the pond | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent one=Theme into pond=Destination |
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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