English Fairy Tales, Fairy Ointment, sentence 23
Now next day happened to be market-day, and as Dame Goody had been away from home, she wanted many things in the house, and trudged off to get them at the market.
Who acts: next day, Dame · What happens: happen, be, want, trudge off, get · To what, where: market day, home, many things, house, things, market
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fairy Ointment. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (next day, Dame), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 happened | advmod |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 day | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 day | cop |
| 7 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 day | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 market | punct |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happened | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 wanted | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 wanted | cc |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 away | mark |
| 13 | Dame | Dame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 away | nsubj |
| 14 | Goody | Goody | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Dame | flat |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 away | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 away | cop |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 wanted | advcl |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 home | case |
| 19 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 away | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 wanted | punct |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 wanted | nsubj |
| 22 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 happened | parataxis |
| 23 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 things | amod |
| 24 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 wanted | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 house | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 house | det |
| 27 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wanted | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 trudged | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 trudged | cc |
| 30 | trudged | trudge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 wanted | parataxis |
| 31 | off | off | ADP | _ | 30 trudged | compound:prt |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 get | mark |
| 33 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 trudged | advcl |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 get | obj |
| 35 | at | at | ADP | _ | 37 market | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 market | det |
| 37 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 get | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | next day | now | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | market day | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | past · perfect | Dame | home | away property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | want | past | Dame | many things | the house | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme | |||
| 5 | trudge off | participle | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | get | to-infinitive | things = thing | the market | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent they=Theme at market=Asset |
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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