English Fairy Tales, Mr. Vinegar, sentence 23
When he arrived, he walked up and down, and at length saw a beautiful red cow.
Who acts: fortune · What happens: arrive, walk, see · To what, where: beautiful red cow, length
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mr. Vinegar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fortune), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 arrived | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 arrived | nsubj |
| 3 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 walked | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 arrived | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 walked | nsubj |
| 6 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADV | _ | 6 walked | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 down | cc |
| 9 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 up | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saw | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 saw | cc |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 length | case |
| 13 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | obl |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 walked | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 cow | det |
| 16 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 cow | amod |
| 17 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 cow | amod |
| 18 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | fortune | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | walk | past | fortune | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | past | fortune not said here | a beautiful red cow | length | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cow=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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