More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 94
Well, one summer evening as she was trotting away homewards, she came upon a big black pot lying at the side of the road.
Who acts: woman, big black pot · What happens: trot away, come, lie · To what, where: homewards, big black pot, side
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 (woman, big black pot), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 evening | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 evening | nummod |
| 4 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 evening | compound |
| 5 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 trotting | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 trotting | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 trotting | aux |
| 9 | trotting | trot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 evening | acl |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 trotting | advmod |
| 11 | homewards | homeward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 trotting | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 19 pot | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 pot | det |
| 17 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 pot | amod |
| 18 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 pot | amod |
| 19 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | obl |
| 20 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 pot | acl |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 side | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 side | det |
| 23 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lying | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 road | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 road | det |
| 26 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 side | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trot away | past · progressive | woman | homewards | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homeward=Agent | |||
| 2 | come | past | woman | a big black pot | evening | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon pot=Location | |||
| 3 | lie | gerund | a big black pot not said here | the side of the road | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at side=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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