More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 39
They did so, and he went to the side of the bridge, unloosened the mouth of the sack, and shook all his meal out into the river.
Who acts: fools, sound · What happens: do, go, unloosen, shake · To what, where: side, mouth, meal, river
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 (fools, sound), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 2 did | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | parataxis |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 side | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 side | det |
| 10 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 bridge | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bridge | det |
| 13 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 side | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 unloosened | punct |
| 15 | unloosened | unloosen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 mouth | det |
| 17 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 unloosened | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 sack | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sack | det |
| 20 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 mouth | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 shook | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 shook | cc |
| 23 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | conj |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 meal | det:predet |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 meal | nmod:poss |
| 26 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 shook | obj |
| 27 | out | out | ADV | _ | 23 shook | advmod |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 river | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 river | det |
| 30 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 shook | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | fools = fool | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go | past | sound | the side of the bridge | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to side=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | unloosen | past | sound not said here | the mouth of the sack | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | shake | past | fools = fool not said here | sound's meal | the river | out property | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent meal=Theme into river=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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