English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 13

Then he strewed a little mould over it, so that it appeared like plain ground.

Who acts: Jack, it · What happens: strew, appear · To what, where: little mould, mould

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack the Giant-killer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, it), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 strewed	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 strewed	nsubj
3	strewed	strew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mould	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mould	amod
6	mould	mould	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 strewed	obj
7	over	over	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 strewed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 appeared	punct
10	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	13 appeared	mark
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 so	fixed
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 appeared	nsubj
13	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 strewed	conj
14	like	like	ADP	_	16 ground	case
15	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 ground	amod
16	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 appeared	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 strewed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strew	past	Jack	a little mould		mould	then		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mould=Theme over it=Destination
2	appear	past	it					like plain ground	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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