More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 144
In its wild career it passed under the gallows that stood by the wayside.
Who acts: control, gallows · What happens: pass, stand · To what, where: wild career
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 (control, gallows), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 career | case |
| 2 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 career | nmod:poss |
| 3 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 career | amod |
| 4 | career | career | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 passed | obl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 passed | nsubj |
| 6 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | under | under | ADP | _ | 9 gallows | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 gallows | det |
| 9 | gallows | gallows | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 passed | obl |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 stood | nsubj |
| 11 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 gallows | acl:relcl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 wayside | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wayside | det |
| 14 | wayside | wayside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stood | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | control | control's wild career | under the gallows | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in career=Location | |||
| 2 | stand | past | the gallows | by the wayside | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by wayside=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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