English Fairy Tales, Mr. Vinegar, sentence 29
The children followed him about, and he appeared to be pocketing money on all sides.
Who acts: children, man · What happens: follow, appear, pocket · To what, where: man, money, sides
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 (children, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 children | det |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 followed | nsubj |
| 3 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 followed | obj |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 3 followed | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 appeared | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 appeared | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 appeared | nsubj |
| 9 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 followed | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 pocketing | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 pocketing | aux |
| 12 | pocketing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 appeared | advcl | |
| 13 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pocketing | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 sides | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 sides | det |
| 16 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 pocketing | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | the children | man | about property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | appear | past | man | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | to-infinitive · progressive | man not said here | money | all sides | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent money=Theme on side=Destination |
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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