More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 53
Off the child scampered with these words in his mouth till he reached a churchyard and met a funeral, but he went on with his:
Who acts: God · What happens: scamper, reach, meet, go on · To what, where: child, mouth, churchyard, funeral
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 (God), 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 | Off | off | ADP | _ | 3 child | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 child | det |
| 3 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reached | obl |
| 4 | scampered | scamper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 child | acl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 words | case |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 words | det |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 scampered | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 mouth | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 10 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 scampered | obl |
| 11 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 13 reached | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 reached | nsubj |
| 13 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 churchyard | det |
| 15 | churchyard | churchyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reached | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 met | cc |
| 17 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 reached | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 funeral | det |
| 19 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 met | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 went | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 went | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 went | nsubj |
| 23 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 reached | parataxis |
| 24 | on | on | ADV | _ | 23 went | advmod |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 his | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 went | conj |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scamper | participle | the child not said here | God's mouth | with this words | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mouth=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | reach | past | God | a churchyard | off the child | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent churchyard=Theme | |||
| 3 | meet | past | God not said here | a funeral | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent funeral=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | go on | past | God | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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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