English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, sentence 25

Well, he set out, and he travelled a long way, and at last he came to a woman's cottage that had some grass growing on the roof.

Who acts: gentleman, cottage, grass · What happens: set out, travel, come, have, grow · To what, where: long way, last, grass, roof

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, cottage, grass), 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 set	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 set	nsubj
4	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 set	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 travelled	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 travelled	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 travelled	nsubj
9	travelled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 set	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 way	det
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 way	amod
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 travelled	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 came	cc
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 last	case
16	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 came	obl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 travelled	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	23 cottage	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 woman	det
21	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cottage	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 woman	case
23	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	obl
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 had	nsubj
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 cottage	acl:relcl
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 grass	det
27	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	obj
28	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 grass	acl
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 roof	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 roof	det
31	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 growing	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	set out	past	gentleman				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	travel	past	gentleman	a long way			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory
3	come	past	gentleman		last	to a woman's cottage	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cottage=Initial_Location
4	have	past	a woman's cottage	some grass			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient
5	grow	gerund	some grass not said here		the roof		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on roof=Location

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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