English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 67
So the miller hastened to the dam and stopped the heavy cruel mill-wheels.
Who acts: miller · What happens: hasten, stop · To what, where: dam, heavy cruel mill wheels
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 (miller), 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 | _ | 4 hastened | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 miller | det |
| 3 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hastened | nsubj |
| 4 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 dam | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dam | det |
| 7 | dam | dam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hastened | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 stopped | cc |
| 9 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hastened | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wheels | det |
| 11 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 wheels | amod |
| 12 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 wheels | amod |
| 13 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wheels | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 mill | punct |
| 15 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 stopped | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten | participle | the miller | the dam | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to dam=Destination | ||||
| 2 | stop | past | the miller not said here | the heavy cruel mill wheels | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality wheel=Eventuality |
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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