English Fairy Tales, Mr. Vinegar, sentence 27
So the bargain was made, and he got the cow and he drove it backwards and forwards to show it.
Who acts: man · What happens: make, get, drive, forward, show · To what, where: bargain, cow
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 (man), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 made | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bargain | det |
| 3 | bargain | bargain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | aux:pass |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 got | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 got | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 got | nsubj |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cow | det |
| 11 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 got | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 drove | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 drove | nsubj |
| 14 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 got | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 drove | obj |
| 16 | backwards | backwards | ADV | _ | 14 drove | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 forwards | cc |
| 18 | forwards | forward | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 got | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 show | mark |
| 20 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 forwards | xcomp |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 show | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | the bargain | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 2 | get | past | man | the cow | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cow=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | drive | past | man | bargain | backwards property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent it=Location | |||
| 4 | forward | present | man not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | show | to-infinitive | man not said here | bargain | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
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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