More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 41
If the woodman stared, the goodwife stared three times as much. "
Who acts: woodman, goodwife · What happens: stare
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 (woodman, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 stared | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 woodman | det |
| 3 | woodman | woodman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stared | nsubj |
| 4 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 stared | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 stared | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 goodwife | det |
| 7 | goodwife | goodwife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stared | nsubj |
| 8 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 times | nummod |
| 10 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 stared | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 much | advmod |
| 12 | much | much | ADV | _ | 8 stared | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stared | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 stared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stare a condition, not said to happen | past | the woodman | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | stare | past | the goodwife | time | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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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