More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 92
But it rolled away and ran, and ran, till it came to another house; and when it went in the folk were just going to their beds.
Who acts: Bannock, folk · What happens: roll away, run, come, go · To what, where: house, beds
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, folk), 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 rolled | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rolled | nsubj |
| 3 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 rolled | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 ran | cc |
| 6 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rolled | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ran | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ran | cc |
| 9 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ran | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 11 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 13 came | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ran | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 house | case |
| 15 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 house | det |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 went | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 went | cc |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 went | advmod |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 went | nsubj |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rolled | conj |
| 22 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 27 going | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 folk | det |
| 24 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 going | nsubj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 going | aux |
| 26 | just | just | ADV | _ | 27 going | advmod |
| 27 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 went | advcl |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 beds | case |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 beds | nmod:poss |
| 30 | beds | bed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 going | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rolled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll away | past | Bannock | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | run | past | Bannock not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | run | past | Bannock not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | come | past | Bannock | another house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | go | past | Bannock | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | go | past · progressive | the folk | doors's beds | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=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.
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