More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 132
And taking his bottle and bag, he trudged to the court.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: take, trudge · To what, where: bottle, court
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 taking | cc |
| 2 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 trudged | csubj |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 bottle | nmod:poss |
| 4 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 taking | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 bag | cc |
| 6 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bottle | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 taking | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 trudged | nsubj |
| 9 | trudged | trudge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 court | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 court | det |
| 12 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 trudged | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 trudged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | Jack's bottle and bag | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=Theme | |||||
| 2 | trudge | past | Jack | the court | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to court=Destination |
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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