More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 42
And they went back and enjoyed themselves well, and had a good laugh about the castle.
Who acts: grounds · What happens: go back, enjoy, have · To what, where: grounds, good laugh
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 (grounds), 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 went | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 enjoyed | cc |
| 6 | enjoyed | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 7 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 enjoyed | obj |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 enjoyed | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 had | cc |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 laugh | det |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 laugh | amod |
| 14 | laugh | laugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obj |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 castle | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 castle | det |
| 17 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 laugh | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | grounds | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | enjoy | past | grounds not said here | grounds | well property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer themselves=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | have | past | grounds not said here | a good laugh | about the castle | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laugh=Patient |
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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