More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 141
And off he went--Kerplash!--into the water, along the silver path, towards the bright arch.
Who acts: foot · What happens: go · To what, where: water
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 (foot), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 went | cc |
| 2 | off | off | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 6 Kerplash | punct |
| 6 | Kerplash | Kerplash | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | parataxis |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 Kerplash | punct |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 water | punct |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 water | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 water | det |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 path | punct |
| 13 | along | along | ADP | _ | 16 path | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 path | det |
| 15 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 path | compound |
| 16 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 arch | punct |
| 18 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 21 arch | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 arch | det |
| 20 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 arch | amod |
| 21 | arch | arch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | foot | the water | along the silver path; towards the bright arch; off property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme into water=Initial_Location along path=Destination |
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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