English Fairy Tales, How Jack Went to Seek His Fortune, sentence 34
And there were some robbers counting over their money.
Who acts: robbers · What happens: be, count · To what, where: money
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, How Jack Went to Seek His Fortune. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (robbers), 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 were | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 were | expl |
| 3 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 robbers | det |
| 5 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 were | nsubj |
| 6 | counting | count | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 robbers | acl |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 money | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 money | nmod:poss |
| 9 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 counting | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | some robbers | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | count | gerund | some robbers not said here | robbers's money | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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