More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 25
So one day he started out, and the goodwife filled his wallet and slung his bottle on his back, that he might have meat and drink in the forest.
Who acts: bread, goodwife · What happens: start out, fill, sling, have · To what, where: wallet, bottle, back, meat, forest
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bread, goodwife), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 started | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 started | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 started | nsubj |
| 5 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 started | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 filled | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 filled | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 goodwife | det |
| 10 | goodwife | goodwife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 filled | nsubj |
| 11 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 started | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wallet | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wallet | wallet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 filled | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 slung | cc |
| 15 | slung | sling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 filled | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 bottle | nmod:poss |
| 17 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 slung | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 back | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 back | nmod:poss |
| 20 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 slung | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 have | punct |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 have | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 have | nsubj |
| 24 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 have | aux |
| 25 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 slung | parataxis |
| 26 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 have | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 drink | cc |
| 28 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 meat | conj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 forest | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 forest | det |
| 31 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 have | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start out | past | bread | day | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | fill | past | the goodwife | bread's wallet | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wallet=Patient | ||||
| 3 | sling | past | the goodwife not said here | bread's bottle | bread's back | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bottle=Theme on back=Destination | |||
| 4 | have | might | bread | meat and drink | the forest | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=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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