More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 106

And when the Hobyahs found that little dog Turpie's head was off they tore down the hempstalks, ate up the old man and woman, and carried the little girl off in a bag.

Who acts: Hobyahs · What happens: find, tore down, eat up, carry off · To what, where: hempstalks, old man, little girl, bag · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hobyahs), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 found	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 found	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Hobyahs	det
4	Hobyahs	Hobyah	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 found	nsubj
5	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 ate	mark
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dog	amod
8	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 head	nmod:poss
9	Turpie	Turpie	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 dog	appos
10	's	's	PART	_	8 dog	case
11	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 off	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 off	cop
13	off	off	ADP	_	15 tore	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 tore	nsubj
15	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 ate	advcl
16	down	down	ADP	_	15 tore	compound:prt
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hempstalks	det
18	hempstalks	hempstalk	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 tore	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 ate	punct
20	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 found	ccomp
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 ate	compound:prt
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 man	det
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 man	amod
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ate	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 woman	cc
26	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 man	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 carried	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 carried	cc
29	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 found	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 girl	det
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 girl	amod
32	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 carried	obj
33	off	off	ADP	_	29 carried	compound:prt
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 bag	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 bag	det
36	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 carried	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	find	past	the Hobyahs			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	tore down	past	Hobyahs = hobyah	the hempstalks		tree rules
3	eat up	past		the old man and woman		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
4	carry off	past	the Hobyahs not said here	the little girl	a bag	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent girl=Value in bag=Location

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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