More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 36
Presently he came to a cottage with a lass at the door.
Who acts: yi · What happens: come · To what, where: cottage
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 (yi), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 cottage | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cottage | det |
| 6 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 lass | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 lass | det |
| 9 | lass | lass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 door | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 door | det |
| 12 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lass | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | yi | a cottage | with a lass at the door; presently property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cottage=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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