More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 39

Up she gets with the tow-cards and the tailor with the goose, and the two 'prentices, the one with the big shears, and the other with the lawbrod; but it dodged them, and ran round about the fire; and one of the 'prentices, thinking to snap it with the shears, fell into the ashes.

Who acts: wife, two prentices, Bannock · What happens: get, one, dodge, run, think, snap · To what, where: prentices, Bannock, ashes

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 (wife, two prentices, Bannock), 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	Up	up	ADV	_	3 gets	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gets	nsubj
3	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	8 cards	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cards	det
6	tow	tow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cards	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 tow	punct
8	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gets	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 tailor	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tailor	det
11	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cards	conj
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 goose	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 goose	det
14	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tailor	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 one	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 one	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 prentices	det
18	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 prentices	nummod
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 two	punct
20	prentices	prentice	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 one	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 one	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 one	det
23	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gets	parataxis
24	with	with	ADP	_	27 shears	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 shears	det
26	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 shears	amod
27	shears	shear	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 one	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 other	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 other	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 other	det
31	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gets	parataxis
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 lawbrod	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 lawbrod	det
34	lawbrod	lawbrod	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 other	obl
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 dodged	punct
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 dodged	cc
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 dodged	nsubj
38	dodged	dodge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gets	parataxis
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 dodged	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 ran	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 ran	cc
42	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 dodged	conj
43	round	round	ADV	_	42 ran	advmod
44	about	about	ADP	_	46 fire	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 fire	det
46	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 ran	obl
47	;	;	PUNCT	_	49 one	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 one	cc
49	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 gets	parataxis
50	of	of	ADP	_	53 prentices	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 prentices	det
52	'	'	PUNCT	_	53 prentices	punct
53	prentices	prentice	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 one	nmod
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 thinking	punct
55	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 gets	advcl
56	to	to	PART	_	57 snap	mark
57	snap	snap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 thinking	xcomp
58	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 snap	obj
59	with	with	ADP	_	61 shears	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 shears	det
61	shears	shear	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 snap	obl
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 fell	punct
63	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gets	conj
64	into	into	ADP	_	66 ashes	case
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 ashes	det
66	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	63 fell	obl
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gets	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get	present	wife		with the tow cards and the tailor with the goose	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	one		the two prentices		with the big shears	tree rules
3	dodge	past	Bannock	prentices = prentice		vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent they=Location
4	run	past	Bannock not said here		about the fire; round property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about fire=Trajectory
5	think speech: other	gerund	wife not said here			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	snap	to-infinitive	wife not said here	Bannock	with the shears	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with shear=Instrument
7	fall	past	wife not said here		into the ashes result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into ash=Result

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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