English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, sentence 46
And they had got rakes, and brooms, and pitchforks, reaching into the pond; and the gentleman asked what was the matter.
Who acts: people, gentleman · What happens: get, reach, ask, be · To what, where: rakes, pond, matter · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (people, gentleman), 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 | _ | 4 got | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | aux |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | rakes | rake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 got | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 brooms | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 brooms | cc |
| 8 | brooms | broom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rakes | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pitchforks | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 pitchforks | cc |
| 11 | pitchforks | pitchfork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rakes | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 reaching | punct |
| 13 | reaching | reach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 got | advcl |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 pond | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 pond | det |
| 16 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reaching | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 asked | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 asked | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 gentleman | det |
| 20 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 asked | nsubj |
| 21 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | parataxis |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 25 matter | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 matter | cop |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 matter | det |
| 25 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 asked | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · perfect | people | rakes and brooms and pitchforks | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rake=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | reach | gerund | people not said here | the pond | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into pond=Path | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the gentleman | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | the matter | tree rules |
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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