English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 35
One morning the old woman made a Johnny-cake, and put it in the oven to bake.
Who acts: old woman · What happens: make, put, bake · To what, where: Johnny cake, CAKE, oven
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Lazy Jack. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 morning | nummod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 woman | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 woman | amod |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | nsubj |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 cake | det |
| 8 | Johnny | Johnny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 cake | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Johnny | punct |
| 10 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 put | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 put | cc |
| 13 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 made | advcl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 put | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 oven | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 oven | det |
| 17 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 put | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 bake | mark |
| 19 | bake | bake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 put | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the old woman | a Johnny cake | morning | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Product | |||
| 2 | put | infinitive | the old woman not said here | CAKE | the oven | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in oven=Destination | |||
| 3 | bake | to-infinitive | the old woman not said here | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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