More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 53

But the wee bannock dodged round about the churn, and the wife after it, and in the hurry she had near-hand overturned the churn.

Who acts: wife, wee bannock · What happens: dodge, have, overturn · To what, where: wee bannock, hurry, hand, churn

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, wee 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	_	26 overturned	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bannock	det
3	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bannock	amod
4	bannock	bannock	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 overturned	nsubj
5	dodged	dodge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 bannock	acl
6	round	round	ADV	_	5 dodged	advmod
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 churn	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 churn	det
9	churn	churn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dodged	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wife	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wife	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wife	det
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bannock	conj
14	after	after	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 wife	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hurry	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 hurry	cc
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 hurry	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hurry	det
20	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bannock	appos
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 had	nsubj
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 hurry	acl:relcl
23	near	near	ADP	_	25 hand	case
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 near	punct
25	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	obl
26	overturned	overturn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 churn	det
28	churn	churn	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 overturned	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 overturned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dodge	participle		the wee bannock and the wife after churn not said here		about the churn; round property	vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	have	past	wife	the hurry not said here	hand		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hurry=Patient
3	overturn	past	the wee bannock and the wife after churn	the churn			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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