More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 33

In wandering one day in the forest he met a lusty tinker that had a good staff on his shoulder, and a great dog to carry his bag and tools.

Who acts: Tom, lusty tinker · What happens: wonder, meet, have, carry · To what, where: great dog, forest, lusty tinker, good staff, shoulder, bag

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, lusty tinker), 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	In	in	SCONJ	_	2 wandering	mark
2	wandering	wonder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 day	nummod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wandering	obl:unmarked
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 forest	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 forest	det
7	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wandering	obl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 met	nsubj
9	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 forest	acl:relcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 tinker	det
11	lusty	lusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tinker	amod
12	tinker	tinker	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 met	obj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 tinker	acl:relcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 staff	det
16	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 staff	amod
17	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obj
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 shoulder	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 shoulder	nmod:poss
20	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 staff	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 dog	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 dog	cc
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 dog	det
24	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 dog	amod
25	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wandering	obl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 carry	mark
27	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 dog	acl
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 bag	nmod:poss
29	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 carry	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 tools	cc
31	tools	tool	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 bag	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wandering	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	gerund		a great dog	the forest	day	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	meet	past	Tom	a lusty tinker			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tinker=Co-Agent
3	have	past	a lusty tinker	a good staff	Tom's shoulder		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent staff=Patient
4	carry	to-infinitive		Tom's bag and tools			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=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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