More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 55
So Tom went every day to Wisbeach a good twenty miles by the road. '
Who acts: Tom · What happens: go · To what, where: good twenty miles, Wisbeach
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), 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 | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 day | det |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Wisbeach | case |
| 7 | Wisbeach | Wisbeach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 miles | det |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 miles | amod |
| 10 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 miles | nummod |
| 11 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 road | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 road | det |
| 14 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Tom | a good twenty miles | Wisbeach | day | by the road | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wisbeach=Initial_Location |
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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