More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 36

Trudging along, he came to a stile; but in getting over he fell and hurt himself, and beginning to blubber, forgot what he was sent for.

Who acts: sheep · What happens: trudge, come, get, fall, hurt, begin · To what, where: stile, sheep · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (sheep), 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	Trudging	trudge	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 came	advcl
2	along	along	ADV	_	1 Trudging	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Trudging	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 stile	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 stile	det
8	stile	stile	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 fell	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 fell	cc
11	in	in	SCONJ	_	12 getting	mark
12	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 fell	advcl
13	over	over	ADP	_	14 he	case
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 getting	obl
15	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	parataxis
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 hurt	cc
17	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 fell	conj
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 hurt	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 forgot	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 forgot	cc
21	beginning	begin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 forgot	advcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 blubber	mark
23	blubber	blubber	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 beginning	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 beginning	punct
25	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 sent	obj
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 sent	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 sent	aux:pass
29	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 forgot	ccomp
30	for	for	ADP	_	29 sent	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	trudge	gerund	sheep not said here			along property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	sheep		a stile		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stile=Initial_Location
3	get	gerund				over sheep	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over he=Destination
4	fall	past					vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hurt	past		sheep			vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Patient
6	begin	gerund					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	blubber	to-infinitive					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	forget	past	sheep not said here				tree rules
9	send	past · passive		sheep			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination what=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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