English Fairy Tales, Mr. Vinegar, sentence 28
By-and-by he saw a man playing the bagpipes--Tweedle-dum tweedle-dee.
Who acts: man · What happens: see, play · To what, where: man, bagpipes
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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 - | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 saw | cc |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 and | punct |
| 5 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 7 saw | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obj |
| 10 | playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 man | acl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bagpipes | det |
| 12 | bagpipes | bagpipe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 playing | obj |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 tweedle | punct |
| 14 | Tweedle | Tweedle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 tweedle | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Tweedle | punct |
| 16 | dum | dum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tweedle | compound |
| 17 | tweedle | tweedle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 man | conj |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 dee | punct |
| 19 | dee | Dee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 tweedle | appos |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | man | a man and Tweedle dum tweedle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | play | gerund | a man and Tweedle dum tweedle not said here | the bagpipes | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bagpipe=Theme |
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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