English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 138
So she went along and she went along and she went along till she met Cocky-locky.
Who acts: sky · What happens: go along, meet · To what, where: Cocky
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 (sky), 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 went | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | along | along | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 8 | along | along | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 12 | along | along | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 13 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 15 met | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 met | nsubj |
| 15 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 went | advcl |
| 16 | Cocky | Cocky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 met | obj |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 locky | punct |
| 18 | locky | locky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Cocky | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go along | past | sky | along property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go along | past | sky | along property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go along | past | sky | along property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | meet | past | sky | Cocky | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cocky=Co-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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