More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 60
So it toddled away and ran till it came to the smithy; and in it runs, and up to the anvil.
Who acts: Bannock · What happens: toddle away, run, come · To what, where: smithy, Bannock
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 toddled | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 toddled | nsubj |
| 3 | toddled | toddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 toddled | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 ran | cc |
| 6 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 toddled | conj |
| 7 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 9 came | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ran | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 smithy | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 smithy | det |
| 12 | smithy | smithy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 runs | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 runs | cc |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 runs | obl |
| 17 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 toddled | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 up | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 up | cc |
| 20 | up | up | ADV | _ | 17 runs | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 anvil | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 anvil | det |
| 23 | anvil | anvil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 up | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 toddled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | toddle away | past | Bannock | away property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | run | past | Bannock not said here | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | come | past | Bannock | the smithy | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to smithy=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | run | present | Bannock not said here | Bannock | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Trajectory |
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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