More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 10
So Tom seeing them wait on him as they did, went to work first with one, then with another.
Who acts: Tom, they · What happens: see, wait, do, go, work · To what, where: them
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tom, they), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 wait | advmod |
| 2 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 wait | nsubj |
| 3 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Tom | acl |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seeing | obj |
| 5 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wait | obl |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 did | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 did | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wait | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 did | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 work | mark |
| 14 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 went | xcomp |
| 15 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 work | advmod |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 one | case |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 work | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 another | punct |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 another | advmod |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 another | case |
| 21 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 wait | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | Tom not said here | them = they | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | wait | infinitive | Tom | on basking; with another | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on he=Location | ||||
| 3 | do | past | they | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | go | past | they not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | work | to-infinitive | they not said here | with one; first property | vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with one=Co-Agent |
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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