English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 37

So the old man and the old woman went out and began to hoe potatoes, and left the little boy to tend the oven.

Who acts: old man · What happens: go out, begin, hoe, leave, tend · To what, where: potatoes, little boy, 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 man), 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	_	9 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 woman	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woman	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 man	conj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	out	out	ADV	_	9 went	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 began	cc
12	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 went	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 hoe	mark
14	hoe	hoe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 began	xcomp
15	potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 hoe	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 left	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 left	cc
18	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 went	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 boy	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 boy	amod
21	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 left	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 tend	mark
23	tend	tend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 left	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 oven	det
25	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tend	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go out	past	the old man and the old woman		out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	begin	past	the old man and the old woman not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	hoe	to-infinitive	the old man and the old woman not said here	potatoes		vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent potato=Theme
4	leave	past	the old man and the old woman not said here	the little boy		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme
5	tend	to-infinitive	the old man and the old woman not said here	the oven		vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oven=Theme

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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