English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 42

On went Johnny-cake, and by-and-by he came to two well-diggers who looked up from their work and called out: “Where ye going, Johnny-cake?”

Who acts: Johnny, diggers, ye, hoes · What happens: go, come, look up, call out, work · To what, where: Johnny cake, diggers, two, work · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Johnny, diggers, ye, hoes), 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	On	on	SCONJ	_	2 went	mark
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Johnny	Johnny	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 cake	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Johnny	punct
5	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 came	cc
8	by	by	SCONJ	_	14 came	mark
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 by	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 came	cc
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 and	punct
12	by	by	SCONJ	_	14 came	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 two	case
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 came	obl
17	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 diggers	advmod
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 well	punct
19	diggers	digger	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 came	obl
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 looked	nsubj
21	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 diggers	acl:relcl
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 looked	compound:prt
23	from	from	ADP	_	25 work	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 work	nmod:poss
25	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 looked	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 called	cc
27	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 work	acl
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 called	compound:prt
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 going	punct
30	“	"	PUNCT	_	33 going	punct
31	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	33 going	advmod
32	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	33 going	nsubj
33	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 came	advcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 going	punct
35	Johnny	Johnny	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 cake	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 Johnny	punct
37	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 going	xcomp
38	?	?	PUNCT	_	33 going	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	33 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past		Johnny cake			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cake=Theme
2	come	past	Johnny	diggers	two		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to two=Initial_Location
3	look up	past	diggers			from hoes's work	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from work=Theme
4	call out speech: ask	participle		hoes's work not said here			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	go in a quote	gerund	ye	Johnny cake			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	work		hoes = hoe				nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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