More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 96
They went back to the brook where they had been fishing, and looked up and down for him that was drowned, and made great lamentation.
Who acts: men · What happens: go back, be, look up, drown, make · To what, where: fishing, that, great lamentation
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 (men), 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 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 brook | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 brook | det |
| 6 | brook | brook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 fishing | advmod |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 fishing | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 fishing | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 fishing | cop |
| 11 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brook | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 looked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 looked | cc |
| 14 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 looked | compound:prt |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 down | cc |
| 17 | down | down | ADV | _ | 15 up | conj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 looked | obl |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 drowned | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 drowned | aux:pass |
| 22 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 looked | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 made | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 made | cc |
| 25 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 26 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 lamentation | amod |
| 27 | lamentation | lamentation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 made | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | men = man | to the brook result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to brook=Result | ||||
| 2 | is a | past · perfect | men = man | fishing | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | look up | past | men = man not said here | for God | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | drown | past · passive | that | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 5 | make | past | men = man not said here | great lamentation | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset lamentation=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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