More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 67
'T was a man strayed in the bogs.
Who acts: T · What happens: be, stray · To what, where: man, bogs
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 (T), 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 T | punct |
| 2 | T | t | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 man | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 man | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | strayed | stray | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 man | acl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 bogs | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bogs | det |
| 9 | bogs | bog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 strayed | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | T | a man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stray | participle | a man not said here | the bogs | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bog=Trajectory |
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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