More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 59
So it turned and ran its way out; but the miller didn't fash his head with it.
Who acts: Bannock, miller · What happens: turn, run, not fash · To what, where: way, head
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, miller), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 turned | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 ran | cc |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 way | nmod:poss |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ran | obj |
| 8 | out | out | ADV | _ | 7 way | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 fash | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 fash | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 miller | det |
| 12 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fash | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 fash | aux |
| 14 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 fash | advmod |
| 15 | fash | fash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 turned | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 head | nmod:poss |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fash | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 fash | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | Bannock | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | run | past | Bannock not said here | Bannock's way | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | not fash | past · do-support | the miller | man's head | with Bannock | 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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