More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 102
When she was taking down her big bed she found a bag of groats on the tester.
Who acts: dog · What happens: take down, find · To what, where: big bed, bag
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 (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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 taking | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 taking | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 taking | aux |
| 4 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 found | advcl |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 taking | compound:prt |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 bed | nmod:poss |
| 7 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bed | amod |
| 8 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taking | obj |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 found | nsubj |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bag | det |
| 12 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 found | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 groats | case |
| 14 | groats | groat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 bag | nmod |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 tester | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tester | det |
| 17 | tester | tester | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 groats | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take down | past · progressive | dog | dog's big bed | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past | dog | a bag of groats on the tester | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Topic |
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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