English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick, sentence 36
In a rage, the father caught the warming-pan down from the wall and warmed his son's back with it so that the boy fled howling from the house, and ran and ran till he came to a river and tumbled in.
Who acts: father, boy · What happens: catch, warm, flee, howl, run, come · To what, where: warming pan, rage, back, house, river
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 (father, boy), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 rage | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 rage | det |
| 3 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 caught | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 rage | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 father | det |
| 6 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 caught | nsubj |
| 7 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pan | det |
| 9 | warming | warming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pan | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 warming | punct |
| 11 | pan | pan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 caught | obj |
| 12 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 caught | advmod |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 wall | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wall | det |
| 15 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 caught | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 warmed | cc |
| 17 | warmed | warm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 caught | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 son | nmod:poss |
| 19 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 back | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 son | case |
| 21 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 warmed | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 warmed | obl |
| 24 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 28 fled | mark |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 so | fixed |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 boy | det |
| 27 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fled | nsubj |
| 28 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 warmed | advcl |
| 29 | howling | howl | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 fled | xcomp |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 32 house | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 house | det |
| 32 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 howling | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 ran | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 ran | cc |
| 35 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 caught | parataxis |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 ran | cc |
| 37 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 ran | conj |
| 38 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 40 came | mark |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 came | nsubj |
| 40 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 ran | ccomp |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 river | case |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 river | det |
| 43 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 came | obl |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 tumbled | cc |
| 45 | tumbled | tumble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 came | conj |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 tumbled | compound:prt |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | the father | the warming pan | a rage | from the wall; down property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent pan=Theme from wall=Source | ||
| 2 | warm | past | the father not said here | father's son's back | with back | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent back=Patient with it=Instrument | |||
| 3 | flee | past | the boy | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | howl | gerund | the boy not said here | the house | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | run | past | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | run | past | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 7 | come | past | boy | a river | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial_Location | ||||
| 8 | tumble in | participle | boy not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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