English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 29
There was no time to waste words; so the farmer mounted his horse and rode off after Jack Hannaford.
Who acts: time, farmer · What happens: be, waste, mount, ride off · To what, where: words, horse
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 (time, farmer), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 waste | mark |
| 6 | waste | waste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 time | acl |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 waste | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 mounted | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 mounted | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 farmer | det |
| 11 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mounted | nsubj |
| 12 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 horse | nmod:poss |
| 14 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mounted | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 rode | cc |
| 16 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 mounted | conj |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 rode | compound:prt |
| 18 | after | after | ADP | _ | 20 Hannaford | case |
| 19 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Hannaford | compound |
| 20 | Hannaford | Hannaford | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 rode | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | no time | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | waste | to-infinitive | no time not said here | words | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | ||||
| 3 | mount | past | the farmer | Deary's horse | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 4 | ride off | past | the farmer not said here | after Jack Hannaford | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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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