More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 48
She had not taken more than three flowerets when by her side up started young Tamlane.
Who acts: Janet · What happens: not take, start · To what, where: three flowerets, young Tamlane
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 (Janet), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 taken | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 taken | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 taken | advmod |
| 4 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 7 three | advmod |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 5 more | fixed |
| 7 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 flowerets | nummod |
| 8 | flowerets | floweret | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 taken | obj |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 started | advmod |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 side | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 side | nmod:poss |
| 12 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 started | obl |
| 13 | up | up | ADV | _ | 14 started | advmod |
| 14 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 taken | advcl |
| 15 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Tamlane | amod |
| 16 | Tamlane | Tamlane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 started | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not take | past · perfect | Janet | three flowerets | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent floweret=Theme | ||||
| 2 | start | past | Janet not said here | young Tamlane | by Janet's side | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tamlane=Eventuality |
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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