More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 40
And then the Bears took him to the window, and the big Bear took two legs on one side and the middling Bear took two legs on the other side, and they swung him backwards and forwards, backwards and forwards, and out of the window.
Who acts: Bears, big Bear, middling Bear · What happens: take, swing · To what, where: BEEN, window, two legs, one side, other side
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 (Bears, big Bear, middling Bear), 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 | _ | 5 took | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 took | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Bears | det |
| 4 | Bears | Bear | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 took | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 window | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 window | det |
| 9 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 took | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Bear | det |
| 13 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Bear | amod |
| 14 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | nsubj |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 legs | nummod |
| 17 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 took | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 side | case |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 side | nummod |
| 20 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 took | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Bear | det |
| 23 | middling | middling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Bear | compound |
| 24 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 took | nsubj |
| 25 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 took | conj |
| 26 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 legs | nummod |
| 27 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 took | obj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 side | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 side | det |
| 30 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 side | amod |
| 31 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 took | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 swung | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 swung | cc |
| 34 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 swung | nsubj |
| 35 | swung | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 swung | obj |
| 37 | backwards | backwards | ADV | _ | 35 swung | advmod |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 forwards | cc |
| 39 | forwards | forwards | ADV | _ | 37 backwards | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 backwards | punct |
| 41 | backwards | backwards | ADV | _ | 35 swung | advmod |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 forwards | cc |
| 43 | forwards | forwards | ADV | _ | 41 backwards | conj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 window | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 window | cc |
| 46 | out | out | ADP | _ | 49 window | case |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 window | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 window | det |
| 49 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the Bears | BEEN | the window | then | to the window | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to window=Destination out window=Initial_Location | |
| 2 | take | past | the big Bear | two legs | one side | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent leg=Theme on side=Destination | |||
| 3 | take | past | the middling Bear | two legs | the other side | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent leg=Theme on side=Destination | |||
| 4 | swing | past | Bears = bear | BEEN | backwards property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme he=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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