More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 40
Away he went again, and came to where a man had a pain in his liver, bawling out:
Who acts: sheep, man · What happens: go, come, have, bawl out · To what, where: pain, liver
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, man), 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 | Away | away | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 came | cc |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 where | case |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 had | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | advcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 pain | det |
| 14 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 liver | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 liver | nmod:poss |
| 17 | liver | liver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bawling | punct |
| 19 | bawling | bawl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 had | conj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 bawling | compound:prt |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | sheep | again | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | past | sheep not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have | past | a man | a pain | sheep's liver | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Patient | |||
| 4 | bawl out speech: other | gerund | a man not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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