More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 75
The old wife bade her stay that day, and look out of her back-door, and see what she could see.
Who acts: bade · What happens: look out, see, stay · To what, where: back door · 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 (bade), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bade | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bade | amod |
| 3 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bade | compound |
| 4 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stay | nsubj |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 stay | nmod:poss |
| 6 | stay | stay | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 day | det |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stay | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 look | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 look | cc |
| 11 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 stay | parataxis |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 door | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 door | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 door | nmod:poss |
| 15 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 door | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 back | punct |
| 17 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 look | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 see | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 see | cc |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 look | conj |
| 21 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 see | obj |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 see | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 see | aux |
| 24 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 see | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look out | infinitive | bade's back door | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | see | could | bade | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | stay | bade | nom stay «act 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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