More English Fairy Tales, XLV. Hereafterthis, sentence 13
On minding the door and dispersing robbers by its aid see "Mr. Vinegar" (No. vi.).
Who acts: aid · What happens: mind, disperse, see · To what, where: door, robbers, Vinegar
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLV. Hereafterthis. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (aid), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 minding | mark |
| 2 | minding | mind | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 door | det |
| 4 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 minding | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 dispersing | cc |
| 6 | dispersing | disperse | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 minding | conj |
| 7 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 dispersing | obj |
| 8 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 11 see | mark |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 aid | nmod:poss |
| 10 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 see | nsubj |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 dispersing | advcl |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
| 13 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Vinegar | nmod:desc |
| 14 | Vinegar | Vinegar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 see | obl |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Vinegar | punct |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 No. | punct |
| 17 | No. | No. | PROPN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 14 Vinegar | appos |
| 18 | vi | vi | X | Foreign=Yes | 17 No. | dep |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 No. | punct |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 No. | punct |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 minding | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mind | gerund | the door | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme | |||||
| 2 | disperse | gerund | robbers | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent robber=Patient | |||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | door's aid | Vinegar Mr. | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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