English Fairy Tales, The Golden Arm, sentence 16
“All withered and wasted away.”
What happens: wither, waste away
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Golden Arm. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 withered | punct |
| 2 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 withered | advmod |
| 3 | withered | wither | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 wasted | cc |
| 5 | wasted | waste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 withered | conj |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 wasted | advmod |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 withered | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 withered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wither in a quote | past | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | waste away in a quote | past | away property | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=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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