More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 148
They broke their ranks, fled in dismay, and never stopped till they reached their homes.
Who acts: rebels · What happens: break, flee, not stop, reach · To what, where: ranks, dismay, homes
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 (rebels), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 broke | nsubj |
| 2 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 ranks | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ranks | rank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 broke | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fled | punct |
| 6 | fled | flee | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 broke | parataxis |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 dismay | case |
| 8 | dismay | dismay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fled | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stopped | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stopped | cc |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 stopped | advmod |
| 12 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 broke | conj |
| 13 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 15 reached | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 reached | nsubj |
| 15 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stopped | advcl |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 homes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 reached | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | rebels = rebel | rebels's ranks | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rank=Patient | ||||
| 2 | flee | participle | dismay | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not stop | past | rebels = rebel not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | reach | past | rebels = rebel | rebels's homes | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent home=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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