English Fairy Tales, Master of All Masters, sentence 2
At last a funny-looking old gentleman engaged her, and took her home to his house.
Who acts: looking old gentleman · What happens: look, engage, take · To what, where: girl, last, home, house
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Master of All Masters. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (looking old gentleman), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 engaged | obl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 gentleman | det |
| 4 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 looking | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 funny | punct |
| 6 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 gentleman | amod |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 gentleman | amod |
| 8 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 engaged | nsubj |
| 9 | engaged | engage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 engaged | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 took | cc |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 engaged | conj |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 home | nmod:poss |
| 15 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 house | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 house | nmod:poss |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 engaged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | engage | past | a looking old gentleman | girl | last | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | |||
| 3 | take | past | a looking old gentleman not said here | girl's home | gentleman's house | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent home=Theme to house=Destination |
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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