More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 47
So he thought and thought and thought, and next day he went and borrowed a sack, and bundled his mother in, and carried it on his shoulder up to the wise woman's cottage.
Who acts: yi · What happens: think, go, borrow, bundle, carry up · To what, where: sack, mother, shoulder
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 (yi), 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 thought | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 thought | cc |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 thought | cc |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thought | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 10 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 day | amod |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | parataxis |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 borrowed | cc |
| 15 | borrowed | borrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 went | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 sack | det |
| 17 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 borrowed | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bundled | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 bundled | cc |
| 20 | bundled | bundle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | conj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 mother | nmod:poss |
| 22 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bundled | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADV | _ | 20 bundled | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 carried | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 carried | cc |
| 26 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | conj |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 carried | obj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 shoulder | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 30 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 carried | obl |
| 31 | up | up | ADP | _ | 26 carried | compound:prt |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 cottage | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 woman | det |
| 34 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 woman | amod |
| 35 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 cottage | nmod:poss |
| 36 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 35 woman | case |
| 37 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 carried | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | yi | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | yi not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | yi not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | go | past | yi | day | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | borrow | past | yi not said here | a sack | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Theme | ||||
| 6 | bundle | past | yi not said here | yi's mother | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Patient | ||||
| 7 | carry up | past | yi not said here | sack | yi's shoulder | to the wise woman's cottage | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to cottage=Destination |
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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