More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 41

The bannock ran away, and ran till it came to a wee house at the roadside; and in it runs and there was a weaver sitting at the loom, and the wife winding a clue of yarn.

Who acts: bannock, weaver, wife · What happens: run away, run, come, be, sit, wind · To what, where: wee house, Bannock, loom, clue

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 (bannock, weaver, wife), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bannock	det
2	bannock	bannock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ran	nsubj
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 ran	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ran	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ran	cc
7	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	conj
8	till	till	SCONJ	_	10 came	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ran	ccomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 house	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 house	det
13	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 house	amod
14	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 roadside	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 roadside	det
17	roadside	roadside	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 house	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 runs	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 runs	cc
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 runs	obl
22	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	parataxis
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 was	cc
24	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 was	expl
25	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 runs	ccomp
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 weaver	det
27	weaver	weaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 was	nsubj
28	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 weaver	acl
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 loom	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 loom	det
31	loom	loom	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sitting	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 winding	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 winding	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 wife	det
35	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 winding	nsubj
36	winding	wind	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 ran	advcl
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 clue	det
38	clue	clue	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 winding	obj
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 yarn	case
40	yarn	yarn	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 clue	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	run away	past	the bannock			away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	run	past	the bannock not said here				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	come	past	Bannock		a wee house at the roadside		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location
4	run	present			Bannock		tree rules
5	be	past	a weaver		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	sit	gerund	a weaver not said here		the loom		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at loom=Location
7	wind	gerund	the wife	a clue of yarn			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent clue=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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