More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 133
In his way thither, he was obliged to cross a river, and pulling off his shoes and stockings, while he was passing over he observed several pretty fish bobbing against his feet; so he caught some and put them into his pocket.
Who acts: Jack, several fish · What happens: oblige, cross, pull off, pass, observe, bob · To what, where: Jack, way, river, shoes, several fish, feet
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, several fish), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 way | nmod:poss |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 obliged | obl |
| 4 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 3 way | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 way | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 obliged | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 obliged | aux:pass |
| 8 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 cross | mark |
| 10 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 obliged | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 river | det |
| 12 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cross | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pulling | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 pulling | cc |
| 15 | pulling | pull | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 obliged | advcl |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 pulling | compound:prt |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 18 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 pulling | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 stockings | cc |
| 20 | stockings | stocking | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 shoes | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 passing | punct |
| 22 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 25 passing | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 passing | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 passing | aux |
| 25 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 pulling | conj |
| 26 | over | over | SCONJ | _ | 28 observed | mark |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 observed | nsubj |
| 28 | observed | observe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 passing | advcl |
| 29 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 fish | amod |
| 30 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 31 fish | advmod |
| 31 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 observed | obj |
| 32 | bobbing | bob | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 fish | acl |
| 33 | against | against | ADP | _ | 35 feet | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 feet | nmod:poss |
| 35 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 bobbing | obl |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 caught | punct |
| 37 | so | so | ADV | _ | 39 caught | advmod |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 caught | nsubj |
| 39 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 obliged | parataxis |
| 40 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 39 caught | obj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 put | cc |
| 42 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 caught | conj |
| 43 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 put | obj |
| 44 | into | into | ADP | _ | 46 pocket | case |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 46 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 put | obl | ||
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 obliged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oblige | past · passive | Jack | Jack's way | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | cross | to-infinitive | a river | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient | |||||
| 3 | pull off | gerund | Jack's shoes and stockings | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | pass | past · progressive | Jack | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | observe | past | Jack | several fish | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fish=Topic | ||||
| 6 | bob | gerund | several fish not said here | Jack's feet | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against foot=Location | ||||
| 7 | catch | past | Jack | some | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme | ||||
| 8 | put | infinitive | Jack not said here | fish | Jack's pocket | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal |
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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