English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, sentence 22
And then they all started a-crying worse than before.
Who acts: farmer · What happens: start, cry
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 (farmer), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 started | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 started | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 started | nsubj |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 started | advmod |
| 5 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 crying | det |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 a | punct |
| 8 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 started | advcl |
| 9 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 crying | xcomp |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 before | case |
| 11 | before | before | ADV | _ | 9 worse | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | farmer | then | all property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | gerund | farmer not said here | bad property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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