More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 14
He walks over it many times, and dances upon it, and nothing happened to him.
Who acts: Prince, nothing · What happens: walk, dance, happen · To what, where: handkerchief, Prince
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, nothing), 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 walks | nsubj |
| 2 | walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | over | over | ADP | _ | 4 it | case |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 walks | obl |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 times | amod |
| 6 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 walks | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dances | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 dances | cc |
| 9 | dances | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 walks | conj |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 dances | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 happened | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 happened | cc |
| 14 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 15 happened | nsubj |
| 15 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 dances | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 happened | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 walks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | present | Prince | handkerchief | time | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over it=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | dance | present | Prince not said here | handkerchief | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon it=Location | ||||
| 3 | happen | past | nothing | Prince | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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