More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 91
So she did so, but could not find the shank-bone of the calf.
Who acts: Rushen · What happens: do, not find · To what, where: shank bone
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 (Rushen), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 did | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 find | advcl |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 did | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 find | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 find | cc |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 find | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 find | advmod |
| 9 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bone | det |
| 11 | shank | shank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bone | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 shank | punct |
| 13 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 find | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 calf | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 calf | det |
| 16 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bone | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Rushen | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not find | could | the shank bone of the calf | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Topic |
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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