More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 65
This the poor fellow did, till he overtook a man and a woman going to be married. "
Who acts: poor fellow, fellow, man · What happens: do, overtake, go, marry · To what, where: man
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 (poor fellow, fellow, 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 fellow | det |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 poor | det |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fellow | amod |
| 4 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 overtook | punct |
| 7 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 9 overtook | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 overtook | nsubj |
| 9 | overtook | overtake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 did | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 overtook | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 woman | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 woman | det |
| 14 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 man | conj |
| 15 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 man | acl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 married | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 married | aux:pass |
| 18 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 going | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | this poor fellow | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | overtake | past | fellow | a man and a woman | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | gerund | a man and a woman not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | marry | to-infinitive · passive | a man and a woman not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» |
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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