More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 106
So she paddled and she paddled and she paddled, but ne'er a one did she find.
Who acts: lassie · What happens: paddle, find
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 (lassie), 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 paddled | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 paddled | nsubj |
| 3 | paddled | paddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 paddled | cc |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 paddled | nsubj |
| 6 | paddled | paddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 paddled | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 paddled | cc |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 paddled | nsubj |
| 9 | paddled | paddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 paddled | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 find | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 find | cc |
| 12 | ne'er | ne'er | ADP | _ | 14 one | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 one | det |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 find | obl |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 find | aux |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 find | nsubj |
| 17 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 paddled | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 paddled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paddle | past | lassie | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | paddle | past | lassie | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | paddle | past | lassie | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | find | past · do-support | lassie | ne'er a one | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent |
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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