More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 38

But as they were going upstairs, she cried, "O John, I must go back, sure I've left my shutters undone, and they'll be slashing and banging all night."

Who acts: Feathers, girl · What happens: go, cry, go back, leave, undo, slash · To what, where: John, shutters · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Feathers, girl), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 cried	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 going	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 going	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 going	aux
5	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 cried	advcl
6	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	_	5 going	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 going	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cried	nsubj
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 John	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 John	punct
12	O	o	INTJ	_	13 John	discourse
13	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 cried	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 go	nsubj
16	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 go	aux
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 cried	conj
18	back	back	ADV	_	17 go	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sure	punct
20	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 go	advcl
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 left	nsubj
22	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 left	aux
23	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 sure	ccomp
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 shutters	nmod:poss
25	shutters	shutter	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 left	obj
26	undone	undo	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 shutters	acl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 slashing	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 slashing	cc
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 slashing	nsubj
30	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 slashing	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 slashing	aux
32	slashing	slash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 cried	advcl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 banging	cc
34	banging	bang	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 slashing	conj
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 night	det
36	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 banging	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 slashing	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 slashing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	Feathers = feather			upstairs property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past	girl	John			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go back in a quote	must	girl				vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
4	leave in a quote	present · perfect	girl	my shutters			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shutter=Theme
5	undo in a quote	participle		my shutters not said here			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	slash in a quote	future · progressive	Feathers = feather				vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
7	bang in a quote	gerund	Feathers = feather not said here		night		vn sound_emission-43.2 «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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