English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 54
And when they got to the river's bank the youngest got upon a stone to watch for the coming of the boats.
Who acts: boats · What happens: get, watch, come · To what, where: youngest
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 (boats), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 got | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 got | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 bank | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 river | det |
| 7 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bank | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 river | case |
| 9 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 youngest | det |
| 11 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 got | obj |
| 12 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 youngest | acl |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 stone | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 stone | det |
| 15 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 got | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 watch | mark |
| 17 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 got | advcl |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 coming | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 coming | det |
| 20 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 watch | advcl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 boats | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 boats | det |
| 23 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 coming | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | boats = boat | the youngest | to the river's bank | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer young=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | get | participle | upon a stone | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | watch | to-infinitive | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | come | gerund | of the boats | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of boat=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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