More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 46
The youngster strode along, uttering these words, till he reached a field where a hind was sowing wheat:
Who acts: youngster, hind · What happens: stride, utter, reach, sow · To what, where: words, field, wheat
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 (youngster, hind), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 youngster | det |
| 2 | youngster | youngster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 strode | nsubj |
| 3 | strode | stride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | along | along | ADV | _ | 3 strode | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 uttering | punct |
| 6 | uttering | utter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 strode | advcl |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 words | det |
| 8 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 uttering | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 reached | punct |
| 10 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 12 reached | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 reached | nsubj |
| 12 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 strode | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 field | det |
| 14 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 reached | obj |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 sowing | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 hind | det |
| 17 | hind | hind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sowing | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 sowing | aux |
| 19 | sowing | sow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 field | acl:relcl |
| 20 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sowing | obj |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 strode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stride | past | the youngster | along property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | utter speech: other | gerund | the youngster not said here | this words | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 3 | reach | past | youngster | a field | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent field=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sow | past · progressive | a hind | wheat | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wheat=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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