More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 59

Away went the boy, and met a dog and a cat going to be hung, but his cry rang out:

Who acts: cat, cry · What happens: go, meet, hang, ring out, cry · To what, where: boy, dog

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 (cat, cry), 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	_	2 went	advmod
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 met	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 met	cc
7	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 dog	det
9	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 met	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cat	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 cat	det
12	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dog	conj
13	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 cat	acl
14	to	to	PART	_	16 hung	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 hung	aux:pass
16	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 going	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 rang	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 rang	cc
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 cry	nmod:poss
20	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rang	nsubj
21	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 rang	compound:prt
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past		the boy	away property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location boy=Theme
2	meet	past		a dog and a cat		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Co-Agent
3	go	gerund	a cat not said here			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	hang	to-infinitive · passive	a cat not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»
5	ring out	past	cat's cry			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	cry		cat			nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=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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