More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 142
But the stick wouldn't break, so back he went to the house. "
Who acts: stick, Coo · What happens: not break, go · To what, where: house
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stick, Coo), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 break | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 stick | det |
| 3 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 break | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 break | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 break | advmod |
| 6 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 back | advmod |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 break | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 house | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 house | det |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 break | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 break | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not break | would | the stick | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | go | past | Coo | the house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/30/142/