English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 145
They went along, and they went along, and they went along, till they met Ducky-daddles.
Who acts: lines, Ducky · What happens: go along, meet, daddle
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 (lines, Ducky), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | along | along | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 8 | along | along | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 13 | along | along | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 met | punct |
| 15 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 17 met | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 met | nsubj |
| 17 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 went | conj |
| 18 | Ducky | Ducky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 daddles | nsubj |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Ducky | punct |
| 20 | daddles | daddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 met | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go along | past | lines = line | along property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go along | past | lines = line | along property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go along | past | lines = line | along property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | meet | past | lines = line | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | daddle | present | Ducky | tree rules |
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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