More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 109
Now the robber was dressed like a fine gentleman, so she thought to herself it was very kind of so fine a man to come for the bag of groats, so she ran upstairs and fetched the bag of groats, and gave it to the robber and he went away with it.
Who acts: fine gentleman, Hereafterthis, bag, robber · What happens: dress, think, be, come, run, fetch · To what, where: robber, Hereafterthis, bag · 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 (fine gentleman, Hereafterthis, bag, robber), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 robber | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 robber | det |
| 3 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dressed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dressed | aux:pass |
| 5 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 gentleman | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 gentleman | det |
| 8 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 gentleman | amod |
| 9 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dressed | obl:agent |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 thought | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 thought | advmod |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 thought | nsubj |
| 13 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dressed | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 herself | case |
| 15 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 thought | obl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 kind | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 kind | cop |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 kind | advmod |
| 19 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 thought | ccomp |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 kind | obl |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 fine | advmod |
| 22 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 kind | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 man | det |
| 24 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 kind | nsubj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 come | mark |
| 26 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 man | acl |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 bag | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 bag | det |
| 29 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 come | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 groats | case |
| 31 | groats | groat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 bag | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 ran | punct |
| 33 | so | so | ADV | _ | 35 ran | advmod |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 ran | nsubj |
| 35 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dressed | parataxis |
| 36 | upstairs | upstairs | ADV | _ | 35 ran | advmod |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 fetched | cc |
| 38 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 ran | conj |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 bag | det |
| 40 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 fetched | obj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 groats | case |
| 42 | groats | groat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 bag | nmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 gave | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 gave | cc |
| 45 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dressed | conj |
| 46 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 gave | obj |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 robber | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 robber | det |
| 49 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 gave | obl |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 went | cc |
| 51 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 went | nsubj |
| 52 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 gave | conj |
| 53 | away | away | ADV | _ | 52 went | advmod |
| 54 | with | with | ADP | _ | 55 it | case |
| 55 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 went | obl |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | past · passive | a fine gentleman | the robber | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Hereafterthis | Hereafterthis | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | bag | kind property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | bag not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | come | to-infinitive | bag not said here | for the bag of groats | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | run | past | Hereafterthis | upstairs property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | fetch | past | Hereafterthis not said here | the bag of groats | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme | ||||
| 8 | give | past | a fine gentleman not said here | bag | the robber | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to robber=Recipient | |||
| 9 | go away | past | robber | with bag; away property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with it=Beneficiary |
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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