More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 65
But it missed, and the bannock was out of sight in a crack, and ran till it came to a farmhouse with a good peat-stack at the end of it.
Who acts: Bannock · What happens: miss, be, run, come · To what, where: sight, farmhouse
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 | _ | 3 missed | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 missed | nsubj |
| 3 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sight | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sight | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bannock | det |
| 7 | bannock | bannock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sight | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sight | cop |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 sight | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 sight | case |
| 11 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 missed | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 crack | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 crack | det |
| 14 | crack | crack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sight | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ran | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 ran | cc |
| 17 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 missed | conj |
| 18 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 20 came | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 came | nsubj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 ran | ccomp |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 farmhouse | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 farmhouse | det |
| 23 | farmhouse | farmhouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | obl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 stack | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 stack | det |
| 26 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 stack | amod |
| 27 | peat | peat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 stack | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 peat | punct |
| 29 | stack | stack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | obl |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 end | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 end | det |
| 32 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 stack | nmod |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 it | case |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 end | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 missed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | miss | past | Bannock | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the bannock | sight | in a crack | tree rules | |||
| 3 | run | past | Bannock not said here | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | come | past | Bannock | a farmhouse | with a good peat stack at the end of end | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to farmhouse=Initial_Location |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/21/65/