More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 1
"Hackèd Heels and Pinchèd Toes Behind the young prince rides, But Pretty Feet and Little Feet Behind the cauldron bides."
Who acts: Hackèd Heels, cauldron · What happens: ride, bide · To what, where: Pretty Feet
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hackèd Heels, cauldron), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Heels | punct |
| 2 | Hackèd | Hackèd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Heels | compound |
| 3 | Heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 rides | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Toes | cc |
| 5 | Pinchèd | Pinchèd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Toes | compound |
| 6 | Toes | toe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 Heels | conj |
| 7 | Behind | behind | ADP | _ | 10 prince | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 prince | det |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 prince | amod |
| 10 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Heels | nmod |
| 11 | rides | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Feet | punct |
| 13 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 Feet | cc |
| 14 | Pretty | Pretty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Feet | compound |
| 15 | Feet | Feet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 rides | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Feet | cc |
| 17 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Feet | amod |
| 18 | Feet | Feet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Feet | conj |
| 19 | Behind | behind | ADP | _ | 22 bides | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 cauldron | det |
| 21 | cauldron | cauldron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bides | nsubj |
| 22 | bides | bide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 rides | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 rides | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 rides | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride in a quote | present | Hackèd Heels behind the young prince and Pinchèd Toes | Pretty Feet and Little Feet | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | bide in a quote | present | the cauldron | tree rules |
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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