English Fairy Tales, The Old Woman and Her Pig, sentence 34

So away went the old woman to the haystack and she brought the hay to the cow.

Who acts: woman · What happens: go, bring · To what, where: old woman, hay, cow

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Old Woman and Her Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	away	away	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 woman	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woman	amod
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 haystack	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 haystack	det
9	haystack	haystack	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 brought	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 brought	nsubj
12	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hay	det
14	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 brought	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 cow	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cow	det
17	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 brought	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past		the old woman				to the haystack; away property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location woman=Theme
2	bring	past	woman	the hay	the cow				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hay=Theme to cow=Destination

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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