More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 48
Another point of interest in English folk-narrative is the repetition of verbs of motion, "So he went along and went along and went along."
Who acts: point, third · What happens: be, go along, point · To what, where: repetition, interest
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (point, third), 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 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 point | det |
| 2 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 repetition | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 interest | case |
| 4 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 point | nmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 narrative | case |
| 6 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 narrative | compound |
| 7 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 narrative | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 folk | punct |
| 9 | narrative | narrative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 interest | nmod |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 repetition | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 repetition | det |
| 12 | repetition | repetition | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 verbs | case |
| 14 | verbs | verb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 repetition | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 motion | case |
| 16 | motion | motion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 verbs | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 went | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 went | punct |
| 19 | So | so | ADV | _ | 21 went | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 went | nsubj |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 repetition | parataxis |
| 22 | along | along | ADV | _ | 21 went | advmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 went | cc |
| 24 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 went | conj |
| 25 | along | along | ADV | _ | 24 went | advmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 went | cc |
| 27 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 went | conj |
| 28 | along | along | ADV | _ | 27 went | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 repetition | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 repetition | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | another point of interest in English folk narrative | the repetition | of verbs of motion | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go along in a quote | past | third | along property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go along in a quote | past | third not said here | along property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go along in a quote | past | third not said here | along property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | point | interest in English folk narrative | nom point «cognition 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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