English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 2
So he walked up moors, down glens, till at last he came to a farm, from which the good man had gone away to market.
Who acts: soldier, good man · What happens: walk up, come, go · To what, where: moors, last
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack Hannaford. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier, good 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 | _ | 3 walked | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 walked | compound:prt |
| 5 | moors | moor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 walked | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 glens | punct |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 glens | case |
| 8 | glens | glen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 moors | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 10 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 14 came | mark |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 last | case |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 came | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 walked | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 farm | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 farm | det |
| 17 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 gone | punct |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 which | case |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 gone | obl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 man | det |
| 22 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 man | amod |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 gone | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 gone | aux |
| 25 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 came | conj |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 25 gone | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 market | case |
| 28 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 away | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk up | past | soldier | moors and glens | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme moor=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | come | past | soldier | last | to a farm | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to farm=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | go | past · perfect | the good man | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from which=Initial_Location |
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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