More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 74
And off and up the burn it ran to the next house, and rolled its way to the fireside.
Who acts: heckle · What happens: run, roll · To what, where: way, fireside
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 (heckle), 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 off | cc |
| 2 | off | off | ADV | _ | 8 ran | advmod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 burn | cc |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 burn | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 burn | det |
| 6 | burn | burn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 off | conj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 ran | nsubj |
| 8 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 house | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 house | det |
| 11 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 house | amod |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ran | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 rolled | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 rolled | cc |
| 15 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ran | conj |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 way | nmod:poss |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rolled | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 fireside | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 fireside | det |
| 20 | fireside | fireside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rolled | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | heckle | to the next house result; off property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to house=Result | ||||
| 2 | roll | past | heckle not said here | heckle's way | the fireside | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent way=Theme to fireside=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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