More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 40
And well he might look, for Tom was swelling and Tom was staring, and at last Tom shrieked out, "What--old Tim dead! then I'm the King o' the Cats!" and rushed up the chimney and was never more seen.
Who acts: Tom, wife · What happens: look, swell, stare, shriek out, be, rush up · To what, where: Cats, last Tom, King o, chimney, more
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 (Tom, wife), 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 | _ | 5 look | cc |
| 2 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 look | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 look | nsubj |
| 4 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 look | aux |
| 5 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 swelling | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 swelling | mark |
| 8 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 swelling | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 swelling | aux |
| 10 | swelling | swell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 look | advcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 staring | cc |
| 12 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 staring | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 staring | aux |
| 14 | staring | stare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 swelling | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 shrieked | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 shrieked | cc |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 Tom | case |
| 18 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Tom | amod |
| 19 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 shrieked | obl |
| 20 | shrieked | shriek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 swelling | conj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 shrieked | compound:prt |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 What | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 What | punct |
| 24 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 shrieked | obj |
| 25 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 Tim | punct |
| 26 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Tim | amod |
| 27 | Tim | Tim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 What | appos |
| 28 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Tim | amod |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 27 Tim | punct |
| 30 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 35 o | advmod |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 o | nsubj |
| 32 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 o | cop |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 o | det |
| 34 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 o | compound |
| 35 | o | o | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 shrieked | obl |
| 36 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 35 o | punct |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Cats | det |
| 38 | Cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 shrieked | obj |
| 39 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 shrieked | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 look | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 rushed | cc |
| 42 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 look | conj |
| 43 | up | up | ADP | _ | 42 rushed | compound:prt |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 chimney | det |
| 45 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 rushed | obj |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 seen | cc |
| 47 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 seen | aux:pass |
| 48 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 50 seen | advmod |
| 49 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 50 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 50 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 rushed | conj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | might | Tom | well property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | swell | past · progressive | Tom | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | stare | past · progressive | Tom | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | shriek out | past | Tom not said here | the Cats | last Tom | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | Tom's wife = wife | the King o | then | tree rules | |||
| 6 | rush up | past | Tom not said here | the chimney | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme chimney=Trajectory | ||||
| 7 | not see | past · passive | more | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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