More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 100

But it wriggled out and ran, and the goodman after it without his breeches; and there was a clean chase over the craft park, and in among the whins; and the goodman lost it, and had to come away, trotting home half naked.

Who acts: half, goodman · What happens: wriggle out, run, be, lose, have, come away · To what, where: goodman, clean chase, craft park, half

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (half, goodman), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 wriggled	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wriggled	nsubj
3	wriggled	wriggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 wriggled	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 ran	cc
6	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wriggled	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 goodman	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 goodman	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 goodman	det
10	goodman	goodman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wriggled	obl
11	after	after	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 goodman	nmod
13	without	without	ADP	_	15 breeches	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 breeches	nmod:poss
15	breeches	breech	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wriggled	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 chase	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 was	cc
18	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 was	expl
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 chase	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 chase	det
21	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 chase	amod
22	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wriggled	obl
23	over	over	ADP	_	26 park	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 park	det
25	craft	craft	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 park	compound
26	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 chase	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 whins	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 whins	cc
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 whins	case
30	among	among	ADP	_	32 whins	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 whins	det
32	whins	whin	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 park	conj
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 lost	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 lost	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 goodman	det
36	goodman	goodman	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 lost	nsubj
37	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wriggled	parataxis
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 lost	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 had	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 had	cc
41	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 lost	conj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 come	mark
43	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 had	xcomp
44	away	away	ADV	_	43 come	advmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 trotting	punct
46	trotting	trot	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	43 come	advcl
47	home	home	ADV	_	46 trotting	advmod
48	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	49 naked	advmod
49	naked	naked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 trotting	xcomp
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wriggled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wriggle out	past	half	the goodman after Bannock		without goodman's breeches	vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	run	past	half not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	past		a clean chase	the craft park and the whins		tree rules
4	lose	past	the goodman	half			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
5	have	past	the goodman not said here				tree rules
6	come away	to-infinitive	the goodman not said here			away property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	trot	gerund	the goodman not said here			home, naked property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «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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