English Fairy Tales, Mr. Miacca, sentence 34

So Tommy Grimes ran home, and he never went round the corner again till he was old enough to go alone.

Who acts: Tommy · What happens: run, not go, be, go · To what, where: corner

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mr. Miacca. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tommy), 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	_	4 ran	advmod
2	Tommy	Tommy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 ran	nsubj
3	Grimes	Grimes	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Tommy	flat
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 ran	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 went	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 went	nsubj
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 went	advmod
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ran	conj
11	round	round	ADP	_	13 corner	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 corner	det
13	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obl
14	again	again	ADV	_	10 went	advmod
15	till	till	SCONJ	_	18 old	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 old	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 old	cop
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 went	obl
19	enough	enough	ADV	_	18 old	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 go	mark
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 old	advcl
22	alone	alone	ADV	_	21 go	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	Tommy			home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not go	past	Tommy	the corner	again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round corner=Initial_Location
3	is	past	Tommy			enough, old property	tree rules
4	go	to-infinitive	Tommy not said here			alone property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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