English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts, sentence 30
Away rode the prince and Kate through the greenwood, Kate, as they pass, plucking nuts from the trees and filling her apron with them.
Who acts: king · What happens: ride, pass, pluck, fill · To what, where: prince, greenwood, nuts, trees, apron
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Kate Crackernuts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | Away | away | ADV | _ | 2 rode | advmod |
| 2 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 prince | det |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rode | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Kate | cc |
| 6 | Kate | Kate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 prince | conj |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 greenwood | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 greenwood | det |
| 9 | greenwood | greenwood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rode | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Kate | punct |
| 11 | Kate | Kate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 greenwood | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pass | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 pass | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 pass | nsubj |
| 15 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 rode | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 plucking | punct |
| 17 | plucking | pluck | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 pass | advcl |
| 18 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 plucking | obj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 trees | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 trees | det |
| 21 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 plucking | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 filling | cc |
| 23 | filling | fill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 plucking | conj |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 apron | nmod:poss |
| 25 | apron | apron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 filling | obj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 them | case |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 filling | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | the prince and Kate | the greenwood | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent prince=Theme through greenwood=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | pass | present | king | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | pluck | gerund | king not said here | nuts | the trees | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent nut=Theme from tree=Source | |||
| 4 | fill | gerund | king not said here | Kate's apron | with king | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent apron=Patient with they=Instrument |
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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