More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 79
On went young 'un till he found a fellow with only one eye; but he kept up his song:
Who acts: other · What happens: go, find, keep up, sing · To what, where: young un, fellow, song
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 (other), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 went | mark |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 un | amod |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 young | punct |
| 5 | un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obj |
| 6 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 8 found | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 found | nsubj |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 fellow | det |
| 10 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 found | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 eye | case |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 one | advmod |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 eye | nummod |
| 14 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fellow | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 kept | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 kept | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 kept | nsubj |
| 18 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 kept | compound:prt |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 song | nmod:poss |
| 21 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 kept | obj |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | young un | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location un=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find | past | other | a fellow | with one eye | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fellow=Topic | |||
| 3 | keep up | past | other | other's song | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent song=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sing | other | nom song «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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