More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 87
It was off and out of sight in a crack, and through among the whins, and down the road to the next house, and in and snug by the fireside.
Who acts: goodwife · What happens: be, snug
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), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 off | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 off | cop |
| 3 | off | off | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sight | cc |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 sight | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 sight | case |
| 7 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 off | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 crack | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 crack | det |
| 10 | crack | crack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sight | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 whins | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 whins | cc |
| 13 | through | through | ADV | _ | 16 whins | advmod |
| 14 | among | among | ADP | _ | 16 whins | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 whins | det |
| 16 | whins | whin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 off | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 in | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 in | cc |
| 19 | down | down | ADP | _ | 21 road | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 road | det |
| 21 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 in | obl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 house | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 house | det |
| 24 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 house | amod |
| 25 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 road | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 in | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 in | cc |
| 28 | in | in | ADV | _ | 3 off | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 snug | cc |
| 30 | snug | snug | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 in | conj |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 fireside | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 fireside | det |
| 33 | fireside | fireside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 snug | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 off | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | goodwife | off property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | snug | infinitive | goodwife not said here | by the fireside | 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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