More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 59
Thus resolved, he took the near road, flinging open the gates for his cart and horses to go through.
Who acts: Tom · What happens: resolve, take, fling, open, go through · To what, where: near road, gates
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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 2 resolved | advmod |
| 2 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 took | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 resolved | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 road | det |
| 7 | near | near | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 road | amod |
| 8 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 flinging | punct |
| 10 | flinging | fling | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 took | advcl |
| 11 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 flinging | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 gates | det |
| 13 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 open | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 cart | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 cart | nmod:poss |
| 16 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 open | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 horses | cc |
| 18 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 cart | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 go | mark |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 horses | acl |
| 21 | through | through | ADV | _ | 20 go | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resolve | participle | Tom not said here | thus property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past | Tom | the near road | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fling | gerund | Tom not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | open | infinitive | Tom not said here | the gates | for Tom's cart and horses | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gate=Theme | |||
| 5 | go through | to-infinitive | Tom not said here | through property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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