More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 70
For he built up again the church at Swaffham, and when he died they put a statue of him therein all in stone with his pack at his back and his dog at his heels.
Who acts: Pedlar, riches · What happens: build up, die, put · To what, where: church, Swaffham, statue, stone
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 (Pedlar, riches), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 3 built | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 built | nsubj |
| 3 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 built | compound:prt |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 built | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 church | det |
| 7 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 built | obj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 Swaffham | case |
| 9 | Swaffham | Swaffham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 church | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 put | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 put | cc |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 died | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 died | nsubj |
| 14 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 put | advcl |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 put | nsubj |
| 16 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 built | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 statue | det |
| 18 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 put | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 statue | nmod |
| 21 | therein | therein | ADV | _ | 22 all | advmod |
| 22 | all | all | ADV | _ | 24 stone | advmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 stone | case |
| 24 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 put | obl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 pack | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 pack | nmod:poss |
| 27 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stone | nmod |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 back | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 back | nmod:poss |
| 30 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 put | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 dog | cc |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 dog | nmod:poss |
| 33 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 put | conj |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 36 heels | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 heels | nmod:poss |
| 36 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 put | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build up | past | Pedlar | the church | Swaffham | again | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer church=Patient | ||
| 2 | die | past | Pedlar | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | put | past | riches = rich | a statue of Pedlar | stone with Pedlar's pack | at Pedlar's back; at Pedlar's heels | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent statue=Theme in stone=Destination |
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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