More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 50
Away then went those pretty babes, Rejoicing at that tide, Rejoicing with a merry mind They should on cock-horse ride.
What happens: go, rejoice · To what, where: pretty babes, tide, cock horse ride
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: 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 | Away | away | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 babes | det |
| 5 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 babes | amod |
| 6 | babes | babe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Rejoicing | punct |
| 8 | Rejoicing | rejoice | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 went | advcl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 tide | case |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 tide | det |
| 11 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Rejoicing | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Rejoicing | punct |
| 13 | Rejoicing | rejoice | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 Rejoicing | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 mind | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 mind | det |
| 16 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 mind | amod |
| 17 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Rejoicing | obl |
| 18 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 should | nsubj |
| 19 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 mind | acl:relcl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 ride | case |
| 21 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ride | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 cock | punct |
| 23 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ride | compound |
| 24 | ride | ride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Rejoicing | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | that pretty babes | then | away property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location babe=Theme | |||
| 2 | rejoice | gerund | that tide | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | rejoice | gerund | cock horse ride | with a merry mind | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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