More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 26

Well, they all came towards me, eight of them carrying the coffin, and the biggest cat of all walking in front for all the world like--but look at our Tom, how he's looking at me.

Who acts: eyes, biggest cat, Tom · What happens: come, carry, walk, look · To what, where: eight, coffin, front

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 (eyes, biggest cat, Tom), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 came	nsubj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 they	det
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	towards	towards	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 came	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 eight	punct
9	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 came	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 eight	nmod
12	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 came	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 coffin	det
14	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 carrying	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 walking	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 walking	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 cat	det
18	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 cat	amod
19	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 walking	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 all	case
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 cat	nmod
22	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 came	advcl
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 front	case
24	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 walking	obl
25	for	for	ADP	_	28 world	case
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 world	det:predet
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 world	det
28	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 walking	obl
29	like	like	ADP	_	22 walking	obl
30	--	--	PUNCT	_	32 look	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 look	cc
32	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 came	conj
33	at	at	ADP	_	35 Tom	case
34	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 Tom	nmod:poss
35	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 look	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 looking	punct
37	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	40 looking	advmod
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 looking	nsubj
39	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 looking	aux
40	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 look	conj
41	at	at	ADP	_	42 me	case
42	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 looking	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	eyes = eye	eight of Cats		towards me	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards i=Initial_Location
2	carry	gerund	eyes = eye not said here	the coffin			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coffin=Theme
3	walk	gerund	the biggest cat of all		front	for all world	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Trajectory
4	look	infinitive	eyes = eye not said here			at our Tom	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at tom=Theme
5	look	present · progressive	Tom			at me	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at i=Theme

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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