English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 53

“Ye can, can ye?” growled the bear, “we'll see about that!” and trotted as fast as his legs could carry him after Johnny-cake, who never stopped to look behind him.

Who acts: we, legs, Johnny cake · What happens: growl, see, trot, carry, not stop, look · To what, where: bear

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 (we, legs, Johnny cake), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 growled	punct
2	Ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	3 can	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 growled	parataxis
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 can	punct
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 can	conj
6	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	3 can	nsubj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 can	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 can	punct
9	growled	growl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bear	det
11	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 growled	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 see	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 see	punct
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 see	nsubj
15	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 see	aux
16	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 growled	conj
17	about	about	ADP	_	18 that	case
18	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 see	obl
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 see	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 see	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 trotted	cc
22	trotted	trot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 growled	conj
23	as	as	ADV	_	24 fast	advmod
24	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 trotted	advmod
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 carry	mark
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 legs	nmod:poss
27	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 carry	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 carry	aux
29	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 trotted	advcl
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 carry	obj
31	after	after	ADP	_	34 cake	case
32	Johnny	Johnny	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 cake	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 Johnny	punct
34	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 carry	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 stopped	punct
36	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 stopped	nsubj
37	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	38 stopped	advmod
38	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 cake	acl:relcl
39	to	to	PART	_	40 look	mark
40	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 stopped	xcomp
41	behind	behind	ADP	_	42 him	case
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 look	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 growled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	growl	past		the bear			tree rules
2	see in a quote	future	we			about that	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	trot	past				fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	carry	could	bear's legs	bear	after Johnny cake		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	not stop	past	Johnny cake				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
6	look	to-infinitive	Johnny cake not said here			behind bear	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent behind he=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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