English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, sentence 33

And the gentleman went on his way, but he hadn't gone far when the cow tumbled off the roof, and hung by the string tied round her neck, and it strangled her.

Who acts: gentleman, cow, string · What happens: go, not go, tumble, hang, tie, strangle · To what, where: way, roof, string, cow

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, cow, string), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7439:227): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 went	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gentleman	det
3	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 way	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 way	nmod:poss
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gone	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 gone	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gone	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gone	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 gone	advmod
13	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 went	conj
14	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 gone	advmod
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 tumbled	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cow	det
17	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tumbled	nsubj
18	tumbled	tumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gone	advcl
19	off	off	ADP	_	21 roof	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 roof	det
21	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tumbled	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hung	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 hung	cc
24	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 tumbled	conj
25	by	by	ADP	_	27 string	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 string	det
27	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hung	obl
28	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 string	acl
29	round	round	ADP	_	31 neck	case
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 neck	nmod:poss
31	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tied	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 strangled	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 strangled	cc
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 strangled	nsubj
35	strangled	strangle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 tumbled	conj
36	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 strangled	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	the gentleman		gentleman's way		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location
2	not go	past · perfect	gentleman			far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tumble	past	the cow		the roof		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme off roof=Initial_Location
4	hang	past	the cow not said here			by the string	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by string=Location
5	tie	participle		the string not said here		round cow's neck	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
6	strangle	past	string	cow			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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