More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 78
And they went to another pond, and cast the eel into the pond. "
Who acts: meat · What happens: go, cast · To what, where: pond, eel
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 (meat), 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 | _ | 3 went | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 pond | case |
| 5 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 pond | det |
| 6 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cast | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 cast | cc |
| 9 | cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 eel | det |
| 11 | eel | eel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cast | obj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 pond | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 pond | det |
| 14 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cast | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | meat | another pond | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to pond=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | cast | past | meat not said here | the eel | the pond | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent eel=Material into pond=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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