English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 46
You may be sure it took him a long time to work his way through the briar bush and by the time he was well through Nix Nought Nothing and his sweetheart had run on a tidy step away from him.
Who acts: You, it, briar · What happens: be, take, work, run · To what, where: briar, way, briar bush, time, Nothing, sweetheart
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Nix Nought Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, it, briar), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 sure | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sure | cop |
| 4 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 took | nsubj |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | ccomp |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 took | obj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 time | amod |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 work | mark |
| 12 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 time | acl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 way | nmod:poss |
| 14 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 work | obj |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 18 bush | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bush | det |
| 17 | briar | briar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bush | compound |
| 18 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 work | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 time | cc |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 time | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 time | det |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | conj |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 Nothing | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 Nothing | cop |
| 25 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 Nothing | advmod |
| 26 | through | through | ADP | _ | 29 Nothing | case |
| 27 | Nix | Nix | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Nothing | nsubj |
| 28 | Nought | nought | PRON | PronType=Neg | 29 Nothing | compound |
| 29 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 22 time | acl:relcl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 run | cc |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 sweetheart | nmod:poss |
| 32 | sweetheart | sweetheart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 run | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 run | aux |
| 34 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 Nothing | conj |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 step | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 step | det |
| 37 | tidy | tidy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 step | amod |
| 38 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 run | obl |
| 39 | away | away | ADV | _ | 38 step | advmod |
| 40 | from | from | ADP | _ | 41 him | case |
| 41 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 away | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | may | You | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past | it | briar | time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | |||
| 3 | work | to-infinitive | briar's way | the briar bush | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent way=Material | ||||
| 4 | is | past | briar | the time not said here | Nothing | well property | tree rules | ||
| 5 | run | past · perfect · passive | briar's sweetheart | on a tidy step | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme on step=Trajectory |
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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