More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 99
The goodman shied his breeches, and had nearly smothered it.
Who acts: goodman · What happens: shy, smother · To what, where: breeches, half
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), 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 | 3 shied | nsubj |
| 3 | shied | shy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 breeches | nmod:poss |
| 5 | breeches | breech | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shied | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 smothered | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 smothered | cc |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 smothered | aux |
| 9 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 10 smothered | advmod |
| 10 | smothered | smother | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 shied | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 smothered | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shy | past | the goodman | goodman's breeches | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | smother | past · perfect | the goodman not said here | half | nearly property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination |
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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