More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 6
He raised it, brought it down, and cut the Worm in two.
Who acts: deeper · What happens: raise, bring down, cut · To what, where: Worm, two
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 (deeper), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 raised | nsubj |
| 2 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 raised | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 brought | punct |
| 5 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 raised | conj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 brought | obj |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 brought | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cut | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 cut | cc |
| 10 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 raised | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Worm | det |
| 12 | Worm | worm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cut | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 two | case |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 cut | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | past | deeper = deep | Worm | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring down | past | deeper = deep not said here | Worm | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cut | infinitive | the Worm | two | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset worm=Product |
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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