More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 101
But now it was grown dark, and the wee bannock couldn't see; but it went into the side of a big whin bush, and into a fox's hole.
Who acts: wee bannock, half · What happens: grow, not see, go · To what, where: half, side
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 (wee bannock, half), 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 | _ | 5 grown | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 grown | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 grown | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 grown | aux:pass |
| 5 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 grown | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 see | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bannock | det |
| 10 | wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bannock | amod |
| 11 | bannock | bannock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 see | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 see | aux |
| 13 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 see | advmod |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 grown | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 went | nsubj |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 see | conj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 side | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 side | det |
| 21 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 bush | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 bush | det |
| 24 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 bush | amod |
| 25 | whin | whin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bush | compound |
| 26 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 side | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 hole | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 hole | cc |
| 29 | into | into | ADP | _ | 33 hole | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 fox | det |
| 31 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 hole | nmod:poss |
| 32 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 31 fox | case |
| 33 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past · passive | half | now | dark property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | not see | could | the wee bannock | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | go | past | half | the side of a big whin bush | into a fox's hole | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme into side=Initial_Location into hole=Destination |
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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