More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 32
So she baked two oatmeal bannocks, and set them on to the fire to harden.
Who acts: Sho · What happens: bake, set on, harden · To what, where: two oatmeal bannocks, robes
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 (Sho), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 baked | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 baked | nsubj |
| 3 | baked | bake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 bannocks | nummod |
| 5 | oatmeal | oatmeal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bannocks | amod |
| 6 | bannocks | bannock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 baked | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 set | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 set | cc |
| 9 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 baked | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 set | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 set | compound:prt |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 fire | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fire | det |
| 14 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 set | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 harden | mark |
| 16 | harden | harden | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 set | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 baked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bake | past | Sho | two oatmeal bannocks | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bannock=Product | ||||
| 2 | set on | infinitive | Sho not said here | robes = robe | to the fire | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient they=Result | |||
| 3 | harden | to-infinitive | Sho not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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