More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 35
But the wee bannock ran away and out of sight, and ran till it came to a pretty large thatched house, and it ran boldly up inside to the fireside; and there were three tailors sitting on a big bench.
Who acts: wee bannock, Bannock, three tailors · What happens: run away, run, come, thatch, be, sit · To what, where: large thatched house, big bench
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 (wee bannock, Bannock, three tailors), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 ran | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bannock | det |
| 3 | wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bannock | amod |
| 4 | bannock | bannock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ran | nsubj |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 ran | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sight | cc |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 sight | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 sight | case |
| 10 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 away | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ran | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ran | cc |
| 13 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ran | conj |
| 14 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 16 came | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 came | nsubj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 ran | ccomp |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 house | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 house | det |
| 19 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 20 large | advmod |
| 20 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 house | amod |
| 21 | thatched | thatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 house | amod |
| 22 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 ran | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 ran | cc |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 ran | nsubj |
| 26 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ran | conj |
| 27 | boldly | boldly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 up | advmod |
| 28 | up | up | ADV | _ | 26 ran | advmod |
| 29 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 26 ran | advmod |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 fireside | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 fireside | det |
| 32 | fireside | fireside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ran | obl |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 were | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 were | cc |
| 35 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 36 were | expl |
| 36 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ran | conj |
| 37 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 tailors | nummod |
| 38 | tailors | tailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 were | nsubj |
| 39 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 38 tailors | acl |
| 40 | on | on | ADP | _ | 43 bench | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 bench | det |
| 42 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 bench | amod |
| 43 | bench | bench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 sitting | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run away | past | the wee bannock | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | run | past | the wee bannock not said here | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | come | past | Bannock | a large thatched house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | thatch | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | run | past | Bannock | to the fireside result; inside property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to fireside=Result | ||||
| 6 | be | past | three tailors | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | sit | gerund | three tailors not said here | a big bench | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bench=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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