More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 51

And forward it runs to the neat-house, to the fireside; and there was the goodwife churning.

Who acts: you, Bannock · What happens: forward, run, be · To what, where: goodwife churning

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 (you, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 forward	cc
2	forward	forward	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 runs	nsubj
4	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 forward	ccomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	9 house	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 house	det
7	neat	neat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 house	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 neat	punct
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 runs	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fireside	punct
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 fireside	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fireside	det
13	fireside	fireside	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 house	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 churning	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 was	cc
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 was	expl
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 churning	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 churning	det
19	goodwife	goodwife	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 churning	compound
20	churning	churning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 forward	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 forward	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	forward	imperative	you not said here			tree rules
2	run	present	Bannock		to the neat house and the fireside result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to house=Result
3	is a	past		the goodwife churning		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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