English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick, sentence 2
He ran, and he ran, till he could run no longer, and then he ran right up against a little old woman who was gathering sticks.
Who acts: Jack, little old woman · What happens: run, gather · To what, where: sticks
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, little old woman), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ran | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 ran | cc |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 ran | nsubj |
| 6 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 run | punct |
| 8 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 11 run | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 run | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 run | aux |
| 11 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ran | conj |
| 12 | no | no | ADV | _ | 13 longer | advmod |
| 13 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 run | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ran | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 ran | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 ran | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 ran | nsubj |
| 18 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 19 | right | right | ADV | _ | 20 up | advmod |
| 20 | up | up | ADV | _ | 18 ran | advmod |
| 21 | against | against | ADP | _ | 25 woman | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 woman | det |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 woman | amod |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 woman | amod |
| 25 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ran | obl |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 gathering | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 gathering | aux |
| 28 | gathering | gather | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 woman | acl:relcl |
| 29 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 gathering | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | Jack | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | run | past | Jack | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | run | could | Jack | long property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | run | past | Jack | then | against a little old woman | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against woman=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | gather | past · progressive | a little old woman | sticks | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=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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