More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 33

After a while, the old man came in, and sat down beside the fire, and takes one of the bannocks, and snaps it through the middle.

Who acts: old man · What happens: come in, sit down, take, snap · To what, where: fire, one, Bannock, middle

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	After	after	ADP	_	3 while	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 while	det
3	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 while	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	in	in	ADV	_	8 came	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sat	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sat	cc
12	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	conj
13	down	down	ADP	_	12 sat	compound:prt
14	beside	beside	ADP	_	16 fire	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fire	det
16	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sat	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 takes	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 takes	cc
19	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 came	parataxis
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 takes	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 bannocks	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 bannocks	det
23	bannocks	bannock	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 one	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 snaps	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 snaps	cc
26	snaps	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 takes	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 snaps	obj
28	through	through	ADP	_	30 middle	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 middle	det
30	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 snaps	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	come in	past	the old man			while	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit down	past	the old man not said here		the fire		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside fire=Location
3	take	present		one of the bannocks			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
4	snap	present		Bannock	the middle		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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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