More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 112
So Valentine took the right, and Oliver went straight on, and poor Jack took the left.
Who acts: Valentine, Oliver, poor Jack · What happens: take, go · To what, where: right, left
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Valentine, Oliver, poor Jack), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | Valentine | Valentine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 right | det |
| 5 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 8 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 10 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 11 on | advmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 took | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 took | cc |
| 14 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Jack | amod |
| 15 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 took | nsubj |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 left | det |
| 18 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Valentine | the right | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Oliver | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take | past | poor Jack | the left | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent left=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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