More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 125
He was too intent staring at the pixies and his last beautiful cow.
Who acts: farmer · What happens: be, stare
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (farmer), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 intent | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 intent | cop |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 intent | advmod |
| 4 | intent | intent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | staring | stare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 intent | advcl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 pixies | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 pixies | det |
| 8 | pixies | pixie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 staring | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 cow | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 cow | nmod:poss |
| 11 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cow | amod |
| 12 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cow | amod |
| 13 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pixies | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 intent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | farmer | intent property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stare | gerund | farmer not said here | at the pixies and farmer's last beautiful cow | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at pixie=Theme |
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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