English Fairy Tales, The Rose-tree, sentence 54

The men did what the bird wanted and away to the tree it flew with the millstone round its neck, the red shoes in one foot, and the gold watch and chain in the other.

Who acts: men, bird, millstone · What happens: do, want, fly · To what, where: tree

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 (men, bird, millstone), 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 men	det
2	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 wanted	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bird	det
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wanted	nsubj
7	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 away	cc
9	away	away	ADV	_	7 wanted	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 tree	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tree	det
12	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 away	obl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 flew	nsubj
14	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 tree	acl:relcl
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 millstone	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 millstone	det
17	millstone	millstone	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 flew	obl
18	round	round	ADP	_	20 neck	case
19	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 neck	nmod:poss
20	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 millstone	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 shoes	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 shoes	det
23	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 shoes	amod
24	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 millstone	appos
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 foot	case
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 foot	nummod
27	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 shoes	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 watch	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 watch	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 watch	det
31	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 watch	compound
32	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	parataxis
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 chain	cc
34	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 watch	conj
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 other	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 other	det
37	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 watch	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	the men			tree rules
2	want	past	the bird			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
3	fly	past	millstone	the tree not said here	with the millstone round millstone's neck	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=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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