More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 36

When they saw the wee bannock come in, they jumped up, and got behind the goodwife, that was carding tow by the fire. "

Who acts: tailors, wee bannock, that · What happens: see, come in, jump up, get, card · To what, where: goodwife, tow · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (tailors, wee bannock, that), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 saw	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 jumped	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bannock	det
5	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bannock	amod
6	bannock	bannock	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	nsubj
7	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	ccomp
8	in	in	ADV	_	7 come	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 jumped	nsubj
11	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 jumped	compound:prt
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 got	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 got	cc
15	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 jumped	conj
16	behind	behind	ADP	_	18 goodwife	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 goodwife	det
18	goodwife	goodwife	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 got	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 carding	punct
20	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 carding	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 carding	aux
22	carding	card	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 got	advcl
23	tow	tow	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 carding	obj
24	by	by	ADP	_	26 fire	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 fire	det
26	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 carding	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 jumped	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 jumped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	tailors = tailor				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	come in	present	the wee bannock				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	jump up	past	tailors = tailor				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	get	past	tailors = tailor not said here		the goodwife		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	card	past · progressive	that	tow		by the fire	tree rules

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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