English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 45
On ran Johnny-cake, and by-and-by he came to two ditch-diggers who were digging a ditch.
Who acts: Johnny, two ditch diggers · What happens: run, come, dig · To what, where: Johnny cake, two ditch diggers, ditch
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, two ditch diggers), 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 ran | mark |
| 2 | ran | run | 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 ran | 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 | _ | 8 by | cc |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 by | 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 ran | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 diggers | case |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 diggers | nummod |
| 17 | ditch | ditch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 diggers | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 ditch | punct |
| 19 | diggers | digger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 came | obl |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 digging | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 digging | aux |
| 22 | digging | dig | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 diggers | acl:relcl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 ditch | det |
| 24 | ditch | ditch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 digging | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | Johnny cake | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cake=Trajectory | |||||
| 2 | come | past | Johnny | two ditch diggers | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to digger=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | dig | past · progressive | two ditch diggers | a ditch | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ditch=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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