More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 101
So they went on for a bit, and then, one day, she thought to herself, "'T is time to clean up my house."
Who acts: pounds, dog · What happens: go on, think, be, clean up · To what, where: dog, T time, house · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pounds, dog), 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 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 bit | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bit | det |
| 7 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thought | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 thought | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 thought | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 then | punct |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 day | nummod |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thought | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 day | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 thought | nsubj |
| 16 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 herself | case |
| 18 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 thought | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 time | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 time | punct |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 time | punct |
| 22 | T | t | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 time | compound |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 time | cop |
| 24 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thought | obl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 clean | mark |
| 26 | clean | clean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 time | acl |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 26 clean | compound:prt |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 house | nmod:poss |
| 29 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 clean | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | pounds = pound | for a bit | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | dog | dog | then; day | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | T time | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | clean up in a quote | to-infinitive | dog not said here | my house | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent house=Patient |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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