More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 55
And up came a lass that lived near at hand, and looked at him.
Who acts: lass · What happens: come, live, look · To what, where: hand
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 (lass), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 came | cc |
| 2 | up | up | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 lass | det |
| 5 | lass | lass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 lived | nsubj |
| 7 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lass | acl:relcl |
| 8 | near | near | ADV | _ | 7 lived | advmod |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 hand | case |
| 10 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 looked | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 looked | cc |
| 13 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 looked | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a lass | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | live | past | a lass | hand | near property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at hand=Location | |||
| 3 | look | past | a lass not said here | at lass | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=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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