More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 50

But the bannock dodged round about, and off it went, and over the hill, like a new-tarred sheep or a mad cow.

Who acts: bannock · What happens: dodge, go, tar · To what, where: hill

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), 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	_	4 dodged	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bannock	det
3	bannock	bannock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dodged	nsubj
4	dodged	dodge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	round	round	ADV	_	4 dodged	advmod
6	about	about	ADV	_	4 dodged	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 went	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 went	cc
9	off	off	ADP	_	11 went	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 went	nsubj
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dodged	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hill	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 hill	cc
14	over	over	ADP	_	16 hill	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hill	det
16	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dodged	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sheep	punct
18	like	like	ADP	_	23 sheep	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 sheep	det
20	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 tarred	amod
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 new	punct
22	tarred	tar	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 sheep	amod
23	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 hill	conj
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 cow	cc
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 cow	det
26	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 cow	amod
27	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hill	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dodged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	dodge	past	the bannock	the hill and a tarred sheep or a mad cow	about, round property	vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	go	past	Bannock			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tar	participle				vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent

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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