More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 69
They took and changed his apples for theirs, and off to London as fast as they could, and left the poor fellow sleeping.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: take, change, leave · To what, where: apples, poor fellow sleeping
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 (brothers), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 changed | cc |
| 4 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 apples | nmod:poss |
| 6 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 changed | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 theirs | case |
| 8 | theirs | their | PRON | Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 changed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fast | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fast | cc |
| 11 | off | off | ADV | _ | 15 fast | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 London | case |
| 13 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 off | obl |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 fast | advmod |
| 15 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 took | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 could | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 could | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 fast | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 left | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 left | cc |
| 21 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sleeping | det |
| 23 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 sleeping | amod |
| 24 | fellow | fellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 sleeping | amod |
| 25 | sleeping | sleeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 left | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | brothers = brother | fast property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | change | past | brothers = brother not said here | Jack's apples | for brothers = brother | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent apple=Theme for their=Co-Theme | |||
| 3 | leave | past | brothers = brother not said here | the poor fellow sleeping | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleeping=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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