More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 13
"Bow, wow," says Jack, and ran between the giant's legs on all-fours, barking till he got to the door.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: say, run, bark, get · To what, where: fours · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bow | punct |
| 2 | Bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wow | punct |
| 4 | wow | wow | INTJ | _ | 2 Bow | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bow | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 says | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ran | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ran | cc |
| 11 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 says | ccomp |
| 12 | between | between | ADP | _ | 16 legs | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 giant | det |
| 14 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 legs | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 giant | case |
| 16 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 ran | obl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 fours | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 fours | det |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 all | punct |
| 20 | fours | four | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 ran | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 barking | punct |
| 22 | barking | bark | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 ran | advcl |
| 23 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 25 got | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 got | nsubj |
| 25 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 barking | ccomp |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 door | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 door | det |
| 28 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 got | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Jack | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | run | past | all fours | between the giant's legs | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between leg=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | bark | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | get | past | Jack | to the door result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to door=Result |
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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