More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 74
Her mother did so; and the daughter went away to an old witch washerwife and told her purpose.
Who acts: mother, daughter · What happens: do, go away, tell, purpose · To what, where: old witch washerwife, purpose · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, daughter), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 did | advmod |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 daughter | det |
| 8 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | parataxis |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 washerwife | case |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 washerwife | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 washerwife | amod |
| 14 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 washerwife | compound |
| 15 | washerwife | washerwife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 told | cc |
| 17 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 purpose | nmod:poss |
| 19 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 told | iobj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Norroway's mother | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go away | past | the daughter | a old witch washerwife | away property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to washerwife=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | the daughter not said here | mother's purpose | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent purpose=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | purpose | mother | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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