More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 14
He unlatched it and was off, and never more was seen at Dalton Mill.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: unlatch off, see · To what, where: door, more, Dalton
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 unlatched | nsubj |
| 2 | unlatched | unlatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 unlatched | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 off | cc |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 off | cop |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 unlatched | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 seen | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 seen | cc |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 more | advmod |
| 10 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 seen | aux:pass |
| 12 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 unlatched | advcl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 Dalton | case |
| 14 | Dalton | Dalton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 seen | obl |
| 15 | Mill | Mill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Dalton | flat |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 unlatched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unlatch off | past | Jack | door | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 2 | see | past · passive | more | Dalton | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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