More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 28
He found the apples, and filled the wallet; and on passing through the kitchen the cook near wakened, but he was obliged to make all the speed he possibly could, as the time was nearly up.
Who acts: boy, time · What happens: find, fill, pass, waken, oblige, make · To what, where: apples, wallet, cook, kitchen, boy, speed
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, time), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 apples | det |
| 4 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 found | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 filled | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 filled | cc |
| 7 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 found | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wallet | det |
| 9 | wallet | wallet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 filled | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 passing | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 passing | cc |
| 12 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 13 passing | mark |
| 13 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 found | advcl |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 kitchen | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 kitchen | det |
| 16 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 passing | obl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 cook | det |
| 18 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 passing | obl |
| 19 | near | near | ADP | _ | 20 wakened | mark |
| 20 | wakened | waken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 passing | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 obliged | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 obliged | cc |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 obliged | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 obliged | aux:pass |
| 25 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 found | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 make | mark |
| 27 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 obliged | advcl |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 speed | det:predet |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 speed | det |
| 30 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 make | obj |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 could | nsubj |
| 32 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 33 could | advmod |
| 33 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 speed | acl:relcl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 up | punct |
| 35 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 40 up | mark |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 time | det |
| 37 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 up | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 up | cop |
| 39 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 40 up | advmod |
| 40 | up | up | ADV | _ | 27 make | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | boy | the apples | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Topic | ||||
| 2 | fill | past | boy not said here | the wallet | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wallet=Patient | ||||
| 3 | pass | gerund | boy not said here | the cook | the kitchen | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through kitchen=Location | |||
| 4 | waken | participle | boy not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | oblige | past · passive | boy | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 6 | make | to-infinitive | all speed | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset speed=Product | |||||
| 7 | is | past | the time | nearly, up property | tree rules |
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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