More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 28
The old man looked after the cows, and the old wife span on the distaff.
Who acts: old man · What happens: look
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 (old man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 cows | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cows | det |
| 7 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 looked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 span | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 span | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 span | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 span | amod |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 span | compound |
| 13 | span | span | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | parataxis |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 distaff | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 distaff | det |
| 16 | distaff | distaff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 span | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the old man | after the cows | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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