More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 138
and the farmer crept trembling to bed.
Who acts: farmer · What happens: creep, tremble
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 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 crept | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 farmer | det |
| 3 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crept | nsubj |
| 4 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | trembling | tremble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 crept | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 bed | case |
| 7 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trembling | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep | past | the farmer | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | tremble | gerund | the farmer not said here | to bed | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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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