Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 11

It went off through the wood, groaning and crackling, till it came to the widow's door.

Who acts: word · What happens: go off, groan, crackle, come · To what, where: wood, door

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Lad With the Goat-skin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (word), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 went	compound:prt
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 wood	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wood	det
6	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 groaning	punct
8	groaning	groan	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 went	advcl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 crackling	cc
10	crackling	crackle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 groaning	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct
12	till	till	SCONJ	_	14 came	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
15	to	to	ADP	_	19 door	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 widow	det
17	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 door	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 widow	case
19	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	go off	past	word	the wood	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through wood=Location
2	groan	gerund	word not said here		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	crackle	gerund	word not said here		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	past	word	the widow's door	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location

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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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