More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 11
And one day a woodman desired his help to bring home a tree.
Who acts: woodman · What happens: desire, bring, help · To what, where: help, tree
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 (woodman), 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 | _ | 6 desired | cc |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 desired | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 woodman | det |
| 5 | woodman | woodman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 desired | nsubj |
| 6 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 help | nmod:poss |
| 8 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 desired | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 bring | mark |
| 10 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 help | acl |
| 11 | home | home | ADV | _ | 10 bring | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bring | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 desired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | desire | past | a woodman | woodman's help | day | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme | |||
| 2 | bring | to-infinitive | a woodman not said here | a tree | home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent tree=Theme | |||
| 3 | help | woodman | nom help «act transitive»: poss=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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