More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 32

As he came to a bridge, like the Creek Road one yonder, he leaned on the parapet thinking of his trouble, and that perhaps it would be foolish to run away from home, but he could not tell which to do; when he saw a girl washing her clothes on the bank below.

Who acts: father, parapet, it, girl · What happens: come, learn, think, be, run away, not tell · To what, where: bridge, parapet, home, girl, clothes, bank · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, parapet, it, girl), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 came	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 leaned	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 bridge	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bridge	det
6	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Road	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	11 Road	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Road	det
10	Creek	Creek	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Road	compound
11	Road	Road	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 came	conj
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 Road	conj
13	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	12 one	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 leaned	nsubj
16	leaned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 parapet	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 parapet	det
19	parapet	parapet	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 leaned	obl
20	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 parapet	acl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 trouble	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 trouble	nmod:poss
23	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 thinking	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 foolish	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 foolish	cc
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 foolish	mark
27	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	31 foolish	advmod
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 foolish	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 foolish	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 foolish	cop
31	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 leaned	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 run	mark
33	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 foolish	xcomp
34	away	away	ADV	_	33 run	advmod
35	from	from	ADP	_	36 home	case
36	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 run	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 tell	punct
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	42 tell	cc
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 tell	nsubj
40	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 tell	aux
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 tell	advmod
42	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 leaned	conj
43	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 do	nsubj
44	to	to	PART	_	45 do	mark
45	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 tell	ccomp
46	;	;	PUNCT	_	49 saw	punct
47	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	49 saw	advmod
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 saw	nsubj
49	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 leaned	conj
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 girl	det
51	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 saw	obj
52	washing	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	51 girl	acl
53	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 clothes	nmod:poss
54	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	52 washing	obj
55	on	on	ADP	_	57 bank	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 bank	det
57	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 washing	obl
58	below	below	ADV	_	57 bank	advmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 leaned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	father		a bridge		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bridge=Initial_Location
2	learn	past	father		the parapet		vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	think speech: other	gerund	the parapet not said here			of father's trouble	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	would	it			foolish, perhaps property	tree rules
5	run away	to-infinitive			home	away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from home=Trajectory
6	not tell speech: assert	could	father				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	do not said to happen	to-infinitive					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	see	past	father	a girl			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus
9	wash	gerund	a girl not said here	girl's clothes	the bank		vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient
10	trouble		father				nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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