More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 85
Home went the little woman, all in the dark; Up got the little dog, and he began to bark; He began to bark, so she began to cry-- "Lawkamercyme, this is none of I!"
Who acts: Home, Up, dog · What happens: go, get, begin, bark, cry, be · To what, where: little woman, little dog, Lawkamercyme, none · 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 (Home, Up, dog), 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 | Home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 woman | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 woman | amod |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 all | punct |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 woman | appos |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 dark | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dark | det |
| 10 | dark | dark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 all | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 got | punct |
| 12 | Up | Up | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 got | nsubj |
| 13 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dog | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 dog | amod |
| 16 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 got | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 began | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 began | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 began | nsubj |
| 20 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 got | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 bark | mark |
| 22 | bark | bark | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 began | xcomp |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 began | punct |
| 24 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 began | nsubj |
| 25 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 bark | mark |
| 27 | bark | bark | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 began | xcomp |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 began | punct |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 began | advmod |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 began | nsubj |
| 31 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 cry | mark |
| 33 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 began | xcomp |
| 34 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 36 Lawkamercyme | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 Lawkamercyme | punct |
| 36 | Lawkamercyme | Lawkamercyme | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 cry | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 none | punct |
| 38 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 40 none | det |
| 39 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 none | cop |
| 40 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 2 went | parataxis |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 I | case |
| 42 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 none | nmod |
| 43 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 40 none | punct |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 none | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Home | the little woman | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | past | Up | the little dog | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dog=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | dog | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | bark | to-infinitive | dog not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | begin | past | dog | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | bark | to-infinitive | dog not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | begin | past | Up | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 8 | cry speech: express | to-infinitive | Up not said here | Lawkamercyme | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lawkamercyme=Topic | ||||
| 9 | is a in a quote | present | none | of woman | tree rules |
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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