More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 71
At the beginning of next year following the men drew near the pond to have their fish, and there was nothing but a great eel. "
Who acts: next year, men, nothing · What happens: follow, draw, have, be, begin · To what, where: beginning, fish, next year
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 (next year, men, nothing), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 beginning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 beginning | det |
| 3 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drew | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 year | case |
| 5 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 year | amod |
| 6 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 beginning | nmod |
| 7 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 year | acl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 men | det |
| 9 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 drew | nsubj |
| 10 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | near | near | ADP | _ | 13 pond | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pond | det |
| 13 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drew | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 have | mark |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 drew | advcl |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 fish | nmod:poss |
| 17 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 was | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 was | cc |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 was | expl |
| 21 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 drew | conj |
| 22 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 21 was | nsubj |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 eel | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 eel | det |
| 25 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 eel | amod |
| 26 | eel | eel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 nothing | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 drew | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | next year not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | draw | past | the men | at the beginning of next year | near the pond | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | have | to-infinitive | the men not said here | men's fish | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient | ||||
| 4 | be | past | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | begin | next year | nom beginning «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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