More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 75
The goodwife was stirring the soup, and the goodman plaiting sprit-binnings for the cows. "
Who acts: goodwife, goodman · What happens: stir, plait · To what, where: soup, sprit binnings
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 (goodwife, goodman), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 goodwife | det |
| 2 | goodwife | goodwife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stirring | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stirring | aux |
| 4 | stirring | stir | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 soup | det |
| 6 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stirring | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 goodman | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 goodman | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 goodman | det |
| 10 | goodman | goodman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stirring | parataxis |
| 11 | plaiting | plait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 goodman | acl |
| 12 | sprit | sprit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 binnings | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 sprit | punct |
| 14 | binnings | binning | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 plaiting | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 cows | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cows | det |
| 17 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 plaiting | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 goodman | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 stirring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stir | past · progressive | the goodwife | the soup | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus soup=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | plait | gerund | the goodman not said here | sprit binnings | for the cows | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent binning=Patient |
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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