English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 168
So they went along, and they went along, and they went along, till they came to a narrow and dark hole.
Who acts: Henny · What happens: go along, come · To what, where: narrow hole
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 (Henny), 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 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | along | along | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 went | cc |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 9 | along | along | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 14 | along | along | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 16 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 18 came | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 went | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 hole | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 hole | det |
| 21 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 hole | amod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 dark | cc |
| 23 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 narrow | conj |
| 24 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go along | past | Henny | along property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go along | past | Henny | along property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go along | past | Henny | along property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come | past | Henny | a narrow hole | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hole=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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