More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 56
T was a wearisome journey thought Tom and he soon found that the way kept by the giant was nearer by half.
Who acts: T, wearisome journey, Tom, way · What happens: be, think, find, keep · To what, where: wearisome journey, Tom, way · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (T, wearisome journey, Tom, way), 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 | T | t | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 journey | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 journey | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 journey | det |
| 4 | wearisome | wearisome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 journey | amod |
| 5 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thought | nsubj |
| 6 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 thought | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 found | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 found | nsubj |
| 10 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 found | advmod |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 thought | conj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 nearer | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 way | det |
| 14 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 nearer | nsubj |
| 15 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 way | acl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 giant | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 giant | det |
| 18 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kept | obl |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 nearer | cop |
| 20 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 found | ccomp |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 half | case |
| 22 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 20 nearer | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | T | a wearisome journey | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | a wearisome journey | Tom | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot tom=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | past | Tom | soon property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | keep | participle | the way not said here | by the giant | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by giant=Location | ||||
| 5 | is | past | the way | by half; near property | 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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