More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 70
After a while he awoke, and, seeing the tracks of other horses, he mounted and off with him, not thinking anything about the apples being changed.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: awake, see, mount, not think, change · To what, where: tracks, anything, apples
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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 while | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 while | det |
| 3 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 awoke | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 awoke | nsubj |
| 5 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 mounted | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 mounted | cc |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 and | punct |
| 9 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 mounted | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tracks | det |
| 11 | tracks | track | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 seeing | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 horses | case |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 horses | amod |
| 14 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 tracks | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 seeing | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 mounted | nsubj |
| 17 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 awoke | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 off | cc |
| 19 | off | off | ADV | _ | 17 mounted | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 mounted | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 thinking | punct |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 thinking | advmod |
| 24 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 mounted | advcl |
| 25 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 24 thinking | obj |
| 26 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 30 changed | mark |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 apples | det |
| 28 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 changed | nsubj |
| 29 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 changed | aux:pass |
| 30 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 anything | acl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | Jack | while | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | gerund | Jack not said here | the tracks of other horses | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer track=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | mount | past | Jack | with London | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with he=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | not think speech: other | gerund | Jack not said here | anything | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot anything=Theme | ||||
| 5 | change | gerund · passive | the apples | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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