More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 59
Puddock he would a-wooing rid Sword and pistol by his side.
Who acts: Puddock · What happens: woo · To what, where: rid Sword
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 (Puddock), 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 | Puddock | puddock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wooing | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wooing | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 wooing | aux |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 wooing | det |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 a | punct |
| 6 | wooing | woo | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Sword | amod |
| 8 | Sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wooing | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 pistol | cc |
| 10 | pistol | pistol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Sword | conj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 side | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 side | nmod:poss |
| 13 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wooing | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wooing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | woo | would | Puddock | rid Sword and pistol | by Puddock's side | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Patient |
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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