More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 93
On hearing this she was next to distracted with grief and terror; but she was lifted up and set on his back, and away they went.
Who acts: grief · What happens: hear, distract, lift up, set, go · To what, where: this, mother, back
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 (grief), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 hearing | mark |
| 2 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 distracted | advcl |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 hearing | obj |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 distracted | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 distracted | aux:pass |
| 6 | next | next | ADV | _ | 8 distracted | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 8 distracted | mark |
| 8 | distracted | distract | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 grief | case |
| 10 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 distracted | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 terror | cc |
| 12 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grief | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 lifted | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 lifted | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 lifted | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 lifted | aux:pass |
| 17 | lifted | lift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 distracted | conj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 lifted | compound:prt |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 set | cc |
| 20 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 lifted | conj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 back | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 back | nmod:poss |
| 23 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 set | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 went | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 went | cc |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 28 went | advmod |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 went | nsubj |
| 28 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 lifted | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 distracted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | distract | past · passive | mother | with grief and terror; next property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | lift up | past · passive | mother | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | set | participle | Bull's back | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on back=Destination | |||||
| 5 | go | past | grief | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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