More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 26
So they set out in the lord's grand coach, and travelled through the forest till they came to Catskin's father's house, and put up at an inn near, where Catskin stopped, while her husband went to see if her father would own her.
Who acts: brats, Catskin, husband, father · What happens: set out, travel, come, put up, stop, go · To what, where: grand coach, forest, house, inn, catskin
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brats, Catskin, husband, father), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 set | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 set | nsubj |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 set | compound:prt |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 coach | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lord | det |
| 7 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 coach | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 lord | case |
| 9 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 coach | amod |
| 10 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 set | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 travelled | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 travelled | cc |
| 13 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | conj |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 forest | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 forest | det |
| 16 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 travelled | obl |
| 17 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 19 came | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 came | nsubj |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 travelled | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 house | case |
| 21 | Catskin | Catskin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 father | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 Catskin | case |
| 23 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 house | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 father | case |
| 25 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 put | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 put | cc |
| 28 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 travelled | conj |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 put | compound:prt |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 inn | case |
| 31 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 inn | det |
| 32 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 put | obl |
| 33 | near | near | ADV | _ | 28 put | advmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 stopped | punct |
| 35 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 37 stopped | advmod |
| 36 | Catskin | Catskin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 stopped | nsubj |
| 37 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 put | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 went | punct |
| 39 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 42 went | mark |
| 40 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 husband | nmod:poss |
| 41 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 went | nsubj |
| 42 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 stopped | advcl |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 see | mark |
| 44 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 went | xcomp |
| 45 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 49 own | mark |
| 46 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 father | nmod:poss |
| 47 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 own | nsubj |
| 48 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 49 own | aux |
| 49 | own | own | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 see | ccomp |
| 50 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 own | obj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past | brats = brat | the lord's grand coach | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | travel | past | brats = brat not said here | the forest | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through forest=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | come | past | brats = brat | Catskin's father's house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | put up | participle | brats = brat not said here | a inn | near property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at inn=Destination | |||
| 5 | stop | past | Catskin | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | go | past | catskin's husband | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | see | to-infinitive | catskin's husband not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 8 | own a condition, not said to happen | would | catskin's father | catskin | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot she=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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