English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 27
And when all was ready, they out with their oars and pulled sheer for Bamborough Keep.
Who acts: all, Bamborough · What happens: be, pull, keep · To what, where: sheer
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (all, Bamborough), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 ready | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 ready | advmod |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 ready | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ready | cop |
| 5 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 out | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 out | nsubj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 ready | compound:prt |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 oars | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 oars | nmod:poss |
| 11 | oars | oar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ready | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 pulled | cc |
| 13 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ready | conj |
| 14 | sheer | sheer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pulled | obj |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 Keep | mark |
| 16 | Bamborough | Bamborough | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Keep | nsubj |
| 17 | Keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 pulled | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | all | with men's oars; ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pull | past | all not said here | sheer | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheer=Theme | ||||
| 3 | keep | infinitive | Bamborough | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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