More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 93
The goodman was taking off his breeches, and the goodwife raking the fire.
Who acts: goodman, goodwife · What happens: take off, rake · To what, where: breeches, fire
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 (goodman, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 goodman | det |
| 2 | goodman | goodman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taking | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 taking | aux |
| 4 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 taking | compound:prt |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 breeches | nmod:poss |
| 7 | breeches | breech | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 taking | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 goodwife | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 goodwife | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 goodwife | det |
| 11 | goodwife | goodwife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taking | parataxis |
| 12 | raking | rake | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 goodwife | acl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fire | det |
| 14 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 raking | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 taking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take off | past · progressive | the goodman | goodman's breeches | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breech=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rake | gerund | the goodwife not said here | the fire | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent fire=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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