More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 56
These pretty babes, with hand in hand, Went wandering up and down; But never more could see the man Approaching from the town.
Who acts: pretty babes, more, man · What happens: go, wonder, see, approach · To what, where: man, town
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 (pretty babes, more, man), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 babes | det |
| 2 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 babes | amod |
| 3 | babes | babe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Went | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hand | punct |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 hand | case |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 babes | appos |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 hand | case |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hand | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 babes | punct |
| 10 | Went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | wandering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 Went | xcomp |
| 12 | up | up | ADV | _ | 11 wandering | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 down | cc |
| 14 | down | down | ADV | _ | 12 up | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 see | punct |
| 16 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 see | cc |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 more | advmod |
| 18 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 see | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 see | aux |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 Went | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 see | obj |
| 23 | Approaching | approach | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 man | acl |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 town | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 town | det |
| 26 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Approaching | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 Went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | this pretty babes | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | this pretty babes not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | see | could | more | the man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | approach | gerund | the man not said here | the town | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from town=Initial_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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