More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 85
So he did, to be sure, till he came to a house, one side of which was on fire.
Who acts: other · What happens: do, be, come · To what, where: house, fire
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 did | advmod |
| 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 | _ | 7 sure | punct |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 sure | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 sure | cop |
| 7 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 did | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
| 9 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 11 came | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 house | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 house | det |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 side | punct |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 side | nummod |
| 17 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 house | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 which | case |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 fire | obl |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 fire | cop |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 fire | case |
| 22 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 side | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | other | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | other not said here | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | past | other | a house one side | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | is | past | fire | of one side | tree rules |
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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