More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 58
One day, then, as he was going to Wisbeach, without saying anything to his master or any of his fellow servants, he resolved to take the nearest road or to lose his life; as they say, to win horse or lose saddle.
Who acts: Tom, servants · What happens: go, say, resolve, take, lose, win · To what, where: Wisbeach, anything, master, nearest road, life, horse · 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 (Tom, servants), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 then | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 resolved | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 then | punct |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 going | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 going | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 going | aux |
| 9 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 resolved | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Wisbeach | case |
| 11 | Wisbeach | Wisbeach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 going | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saying | punct |
| 13 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 14 saying | mark |
| 14 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 going | conj |
| 15 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 saying | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 master | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 master | nmod:poss |
| 18 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 anything | nmod |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 any | cc |
| 20 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 anything | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 servants | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 servants | nmod:poss |
| 23 | fellow | fellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 servants | amod |
| 24 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 any | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 going | punct |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 resolved | nsubj |
| 27 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 take | mark |
| 29 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 resolved | xcomp |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 road | det |
| 31 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 32 road | amod |
| 32 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 take | obj |
| 33 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 35 lose | cc |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 lose | mark |
| 35 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 take | conj |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 life | nmod:poss |
| 37 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 lose | obj |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 say | punct |
| 39 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 41 say | mark |
| 40 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 say | nsubj |
| 41 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 resolved | parataxis |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 win | punct |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 win | mark |
| 44 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 say | ccomp |
| 45 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 win | obj |
| 46 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 47 lose | cc |
| 47 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 win | conj |
| 48 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 lose | obj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 resolved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · progressive | Tom | Wisbeach | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wisbeach=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | Tom not said here | anything | Tom's master | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent anything=Topic to master=Recipient | |||
| 3 | resolve | past | Tom | then | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take | to-infinitive | Tom not said here | the nearest road | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme | ||||
| 5 | lose | to-infinitive | Tom not said here | Tom's life | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | present | servants = servant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | win | to-infinitive | horse | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Eventuality | |||||
| 8 | lose | infinitive | saddle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saddle=Eventuality |
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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