More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 44
So after the laundry-maid had his money in her apron as they went merrily along, she stopt, exclaiming: "My clothes are left outside, I must run back and bring them in." "
Who acts: maid, coachman · What happens: have, go, stopt, exclaim, leave, run back · To what, where: money, apron, clothes · 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 (maid, coachman), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 had | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 maid | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 maid | det |
| 4 | laundry | laundry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 maid | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 laundry | punct |
| 6 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obl |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 money | nmod:poss |
| 9 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 apron | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 apron | nmod:poss |
| 12 | apron | apron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obl |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 went | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 had | advcl |
| 16 | merrily | merrily | ADV | _ | 15 went | advmod |
| 17 | along | along | ADV | _ | 15 went | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 stopt | punct |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 stopt | nsubj |
| 20 | stopt | stopt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 had | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 exclaiming | punct |
| 22 | exclaiming | exclaim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 stopt | advcl |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 left | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 left | punct |
| 25 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 26 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 28 left | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 left | aux:pass |
| 28 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 exclaiming | conj |
| 29 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 28 left | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 run | punct |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 run | nsubj |
| 32 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 run | aux |
| 33 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 had | parataxis |
| 34 | back | back | ADV | _ | 33 run | advmod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 bring | cc |
| 36 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 run | conj |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 bring | obj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 bring | compound:prt |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 36 bring | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 bring | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | butler's money | coachman's apron | after the laundry maid | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go | past | maid | along, merrily property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stopt | past | coachman | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | exclaim speech: express | gerund | coachman not said here | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | leave in a quote | present · passive | My clothes | outside property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 6 | run back in a quote | must | coachman | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | bring in in a quote | infinitive | coachman not said here | clothes | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Asset |
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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