English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well, sentence 53

Well, she goes on till she came to a town, and it being market-day, the people looked at her, and, seeing such a mangy face, and hearing such a squeaky voice, all fled but a poor country cobbler.

Who acts: third, town, people · What happens: go on, come, be, look, see, flee · To what, where: town, market day, mangy face

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Three Heads of the Well. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (third, town, people), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 goes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 goes	nsubj
4	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADV	_	4 goes	advmod
6	till	till	SCONJ	_	8 came	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 goes	parataxis
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 town	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 town	det
11	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 day	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 day	cc
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 day	nsubj
15	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 day	cop
16	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 day	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 market	punct
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl:unmarked
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 looked	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 people	det
21	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 looked	nsubj
22	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 day	acl:relcl
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 her	case
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 looked	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 fled	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 fled	cc
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 seeing	punct
28	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 fled	advcl
29	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	32 face	det:predet
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 face	det
31	mangy	mangy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 face	amod
32	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 seeing	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 hearing	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 hearing	cc
35	hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 seeing	conj
36	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	39 voice	det:predet
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 voice	det
38	squeaky	squeaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 voice	amod
39	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 seeing	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 fled	punct
41	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	42 fled	advmod
42	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 goes	parataxis
43	but	but	CCONJ	_	47 cobbler	cc
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 cobbler	det
45	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 cobbler	amod
46	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 cobbler	compound
47	cobbler	cobbler	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 fled	conj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 goes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go on	present	third				vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	third		a town		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial_Location
3	is a	gerund	town	market day			tree rules
4	look	past	the people	market day not said here		at third	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme day=Attribute
5	see	gerund		such mangy face		such squeaky voice obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus
6	flee	past					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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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