More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 26
The man tried to catch it; but it ran away and jumped off the table and he ran after it.
Who acts: man, mouse · What happens: try, catch, run away, jump off, run · To what, where: mouse, table
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 (man, mouse), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 catch | mark |
| 5 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tried | xcomp |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 catch | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 ran | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 ran | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 ran | nsubj |
| 10 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tried | parataxis |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 ran | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 jumped | cc |
| 13 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 ran | conj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 table | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 table | det |
| 16 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 jumped | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 ran | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 ran | nsubj |
| 19 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 jumped | conj |
| 20 | after | after | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 ran | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | the man | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | catch not said to happen | to-infinitive | the man not said here | mouse | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | run away | past | mouse | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | jump off | past | mouse not said here | the table | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme table=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | run | past | man | after mouse | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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