More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 72
This he did, jogging along, till he came to two labourers who had fallen into a ditch.
Who acts: This, God, two labourers · What happens: do, jog, come, fall · To what, where: two labourers, ditch
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 (This, God, two labourers), 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 | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 did | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 jogging | punct |
| 5 | jogging | jog | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 did | advcl |
| 6 | along | along | ADV | _ | 5 jogging | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
| 8 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 10 came | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 labourers | case |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 labourers | nummod |
| 13 | labourers | labourer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 came | obl |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 fallen | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 fallen | aux |
| 16 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 labourers | acl:relcl |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 ditch | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 ditch | det |
| 19 | ditch | ditch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fallen | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | This | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | jog | gerund | This not said here | along property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | past | God | two labourers | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to labourer=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | fall | past · perfect | two labourers | into a ditch result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into ditch=Result |
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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