More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 87
So Tom pulled down the cave, and built himself a brave house.
Who acts: Tom · What happens: pull down, build · To what, where: cave, Tom
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 pulled | advmod |
| 2 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 pulled | nsubj |
| 3 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 pulled | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cave | det |
| 6 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pulled | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 built | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 built | cc |
| 9 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pulled | conj |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 built | obj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 house | det |
| 12 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 house | amod |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 built | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull down | past | Tom | the cave | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cave=Theme | ||||
| 2 | build | past | Tom not said here | Tom | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset himself=Beneficiary house=Product |
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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