English Fairy Tales, The Rose-tree, sentence 37
The cobbler gave the shoes, and the bird sang the song; then flew to a tree in front of a watchmaker's, and sang:
Who acts: cobbler, bird · What happens: give, sing, fly · To what, where: shoes, song, front
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Rose-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cobbler, bird), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cobbler | det |
| 2 | cobbler | cobbler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 shoes | det |
| 5 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gave | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sang | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sang | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bird | det |
| 9 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sang | nsubj |
| 10 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 song | det |
| 12 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sang | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 flew | punct |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 flew | advmod |
| 15 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 tree | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 tree | det |
| 18 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flew | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 front | case |
| 20 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flew | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 watchmaker | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 watchmaker | det |
| 23 | watchmaker | watchmaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 front | conj |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 watchmaker | case |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 sang | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 sang | cc |
| 27 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 28 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the cobbler | the shoes | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | past | the bird | the song | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fly | past | the cobbler not said here | front and a watchmaker | then | to a tree | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Location | ||
| 4 | sing speech: express | past | the cobbler not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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