More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 73
Puddock he swam down the brook, Sir Drake he catched him in his fluke.
Who acts: Puddock, Sir Drake · What happens: swim down, catche · To what, where: brook, Puddock, fluke
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, Sir Drake), 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 | 3 swam | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 swam | nsubj |
| 3 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 swam | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 brook | det |
| 6 | brook | brook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 swam | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 catched | punct |
| 8 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Drake | compound |
| 9 | Drake | drake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 catched | nsubj |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 catched | nsubj |
| 11 | catched | catche | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 swam | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 catched | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 fluke | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 fluke | nmod:poss |
| 15 | fluke | fluke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 catched | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 swam | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim down | past | Puddock | the brook | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme brook=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | catche | past | Sir Drake | Puddock | Puddock's fluke | tree rules |
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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