More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 42
But he got up and first shook one leg--no, that was not broken; and then another, and that was not broken; and another and another, and then he wagged his tail and found there were no bones broken.
Who acts: Scrapefoot, bones · What happens: get up, shake, not break, wag, find, be · To what, where: one leg, that, tail, bones · 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 (Scrapefoot, bones), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 got | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 got | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 shook | cc |
| 6 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 shook | advmod |
| 7 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 leg | nummod |
| 9 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shook | obj |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 broken | punct |
| 11 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 16 broken | discourse |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 broken | punct |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 broken | aux:pass |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 broken | advmod |
| 16 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 shook | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 another | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 another | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 another | advmod |
| 20 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 got | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 broken | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 broken | cc |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 broken | aux:pass |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 broken | advmod |
| 26 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 another | conj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 another | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 another | cc |
| 29 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 got | conj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 another | cc |
| 31 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 another | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 wagged | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 wagged | cc |
| 34 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 36 wagged | advmod |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 wagged | nsubj |
| 36 | wagged | wag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | parataxis |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 tail | nmod:poss |
| 38 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 wagged | obj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 found | cc |
| 40 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 wagged | conj |
| 41 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 42 were | expl |
| 42 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 found | ccomp |
| 43 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 44 bones | det |
| 44 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 were | nsubj |
| 45 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 bones | acl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | Scrapefoot | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | shake | past | Scrapefoot not said here | one leg | first property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | |||
| 3 | not break | past · passive | that | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | not break | past · passive | that | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 5 | wag | past | Scrapefoot | Scrapefoot's tail | then | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient | |||
| 6 | find | past | Scrapefoot not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | be | past | no bones | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | break | participle | no bones not said here | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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