More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 93
And she walked and she walked and she walked, till by-and-by she came to a mill-dam.
Who acts: lassie · What happens: walk, come
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 walked | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 walked | cc |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 walked | nsubj |
| 6 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 walked | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 walked | cc |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 walked | nsubj |
| 9 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 walked | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 dam | punct |
| 11 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 23 dam | mark |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 dam | case |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 dam | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 dam | cc |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 and | punct |
| 16 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 18 came | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 dam | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 dam | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 dam | det |
| 21 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 dam | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 mill | punct |
| 23 | dam | dam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 walked | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | lassie | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | walk | past | lassie | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | walk | past | lassie | by a mill dam | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by dam=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | come | past | lassie | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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