More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 41
But on his way he met his shepherd as he was going to the fold.
Who acts: Abbot · What happens: meet, go · To what, where: shepherd, way, fold
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 (Abbot), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 met | cc |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 way | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 way | nmod:poss |
| 4 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 met | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 met | nsubj |
| 6 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 shepherd | nmod:poss |
| 8 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 met | obj |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 going | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 going | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 going | aux |
| 12 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 met | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 fold | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fold | det |
| 15 | fold | fold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 going | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | Abbot | Abbot's shepherd | Abbot's way | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shepherd=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | Abbot | the fold | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to fold=Initial_Location |
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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