More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 4
So off he went, and when he came to the farmer's, master and men were all a-trashing in the barn.
Who acts: man, men · What happens: go, come, trash · To what, where: farmer, barn
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 (man, men), 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 | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 went | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 came | cc |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 came | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 farmer | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 farmer | det |
| 12 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 farmer | case |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 master | punct |
| 15 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 farmer | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 men | cc |
| 17 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 trashing | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 trashing | aux |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 trashing | det:predet |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 trashing | det |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 trashing | punct |
| 22 | trashing | trash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 farmer | acl:relcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 barn | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 barn | det |
| 25 | barn | barn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 trashing | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | man | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | past | man | to the farmer and master | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to farmer=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | trash | past · progressive | men | the farmer and master not said here | the barn | tree rules |
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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