English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, sentence 2
Every evening he used to come and see her, and stop to supper at the farmhouse, and the daughter used to be sent down into the cellar to draw the beer for supper.
Who acts: gentleman, daughter · What happens: use, come, see, stop, supper, send down · To what, where: wife, farmhouse, cellar, beer
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Three Sillies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gentleman, daughter), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 evening | det |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 used | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 used | nsubj |
| 4 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 come | mark |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 used | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 see | cc |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 come | conj |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 see | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stop | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stop | cc |
| 12 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 come | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 supper | mark |
| 14 | supper | supper | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 stop | xcomp |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 farmhouse | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 farmhouse | det |
| 17 | farmhouse | farmhouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 supper | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 used | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 used | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 daughter | det |
| 21 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 used | nsubj |
| 22 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 used | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 sent | mark |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 sent | aux:pass |
| 25 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 used | xcomp |
| 26 | down | down | ADP | _ | 25 sent | compound:prt |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 cellar | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 cellar | det |
| 29 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sent | obl |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 draw | mark |
| 31 | draw | draw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 25 sent | advcl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 beer | det |
| 33 | beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 draw | obj |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 supper | case |
| 35 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 draw | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | gentleman | evening | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | come | to-infinitive | gentleman not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | gentleman not said here | wife | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | stop | infinitive | gentleman not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | supper | to-infinitive | gentleman not said here | the farmhouse | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | use | past | the daughter | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | send down | to-infinitive · passive | the daughter not said here | the cellar | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 8 | draw | to-infinitive | the daughter not said here | the beer | for supper | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent beer=Result for supper=Beneficiary |
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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