English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 95
So they brought supper, and another stool for him, and down the two sat.
Who acts: skeins · What happens: bring · To what, where: supper
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Tom Tit Tot. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (skeins), 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 brought | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 stool | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 stool | cc |
| 7 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 stool | det |
| 8 | stool | stool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 stool | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sat. | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sat. | cc |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 16 sat. | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sat. | det |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 sat. | nummod |
| 16 | sat. | Saturday | PROPN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 3 brought | obl |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | skeins = skein | supper | saturday | another stool for king obl | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent supper=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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