English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 25

Soon after the adventure of the pudding, Tom's mother went to milk her cow in the meadow, and she took him along with her.

Who acts: mother · What happens: go, take, adventure · To what, where: milk, meadow, Tom, pudding

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The History of Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 went	advmod
2	after	after	ADP	_	4 adventure	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 adventure	det
4	adventure	adventure	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Soon	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 pudding	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pudding	det
7	pudding	pudding	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 adventure	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Soon	punct
9	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 mother	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Tom	case
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	PART	_	14 milk	mark
14	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	obl
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 cow	nmod:poss
16	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 meadow	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 meadow	det
19	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 took	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 took	cc
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 took	nsubj
23	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 went	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 took	obj
25	along	along	ADV	_	23 took	advmod
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 her	case
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 took	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	Tom's mother	milk		the meadow	mother's cow obl; soon property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in meadow=Location
2	take	past	mother		Tom		with cow; along property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
3	adventure			the pudding				nom adventure «act transitive»: of=patient

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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