English Fairy Tales, Fairy Ointment, sentence 6
So they got down and went in and found the good woman abed with the children playing about; and the babe, a fine bouncing boy, beside her.
Who acts: eyes, children · What happens: get down, go in, find, play about, bounce · To what, where: babe, good woman
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 (eyes, children), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 got | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 went | cc |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 found | cc |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 woman | det |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 woman | amod |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 found | obj |
| 13 | abed | abed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 found | xcomp |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 children | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 children | det |
| 16 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 abed | obl |
| 17 | playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 children | acl |
| 18 | about | about | ADV | _ | 17 playing | advmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 babe | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 babe | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 babe | det |
| 22 | babe | babe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 boy | punct |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 boy | det |
| 25 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 boy | amod |
| 26 | bouncing | bounce | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 boy | amod |
| 27 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 babe | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 her | punct |
| 29 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 30 her | case |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | parataxis |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get down | past | eyes = eye | the babe and a fine bouncing boy | down property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | go in | past | eyes = eye not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | find | past | eyes = eye not said here | the good woman | abed property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Topic | |||
| 4 | play about | gerund | the children not said here | about property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | bounce | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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