More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 66
Coming up to the place, he sees no tracks of horses, and, being very tired, he lays himself down to sleep, by tying the horse to his leg, and putting the apples under his head.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: come up, see, be, lay down, sleep, tie · To what, where: place, tracks, Jack, horse, apples, head
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 (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 | Coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 sees | advcl |
| 2 | up | up | ADV | _ | 1 Coming | advmod |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 place | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 place | det |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Coming | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Coming | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sees | nsubj |
| 8 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 tracks | det |
| 10 | tracks | track | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sees | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 horses | case |
| 12 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 tracks | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tired | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 tired | cc |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tired | punct |
| 16 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 tired | cop |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 tired | advmod |
| 18 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sees | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 lays | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 lays | nsubj |
| 21 | lays | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sees | conj |
| 22 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 lays | obj |
| 23 | down | down | ADP | _ | 21 lays | compound:prt |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 sleep | mark |
| 25 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 lays | advcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 tying | punct |
| 27 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 28 tying | mark |
| 28 | tying | tie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 sees | parataxis |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 horse | det |
| 30 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 tying | obj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 leg | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 leg | nmod:poss |
| 33 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 tying | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 putting | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 putting | cc |
| 36 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 tying | conj |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 apples | det |
| 38 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 putting | obj |
| 39 | under | under | ADP | _ | 41 head | case |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 head | nmod:poss |
| 41 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 putting | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sees | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | gerund | Jack not said here | the place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | see | present | Jack | no tracks of horses | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer track=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | gerund | Jack not said here | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | lay down | present | Jack | Jack | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Result | ||||
| 5 | sleep | to-infinitive | Jack not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | tie | gerund | the horse | to Jack's leg | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent horse=Patient to leg=Co-Patient | ||||
| 7 | put | gerund | the apples | Jack's head | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent apple=Theme under head=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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