More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 67
So it blew over for that time, and through her feathers she made the best laundress ever known.
Who acts: row, girl · What happens: blow over, make, know · To what, where: best laundress, feathers
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 (row, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 blew | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 blew | nsubj |
| 3 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | over | over | ADV | _ | 3 blew | advmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blew | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 made | cc |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 feathers | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 12 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 made | obl |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 made | nsubj |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 blew | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 laundress | det |
| 16 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 laundress | amod |
| 17 | laundress | laundress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obj |
| 18 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 19 known | advmod |
| 19 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 laundress | acl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 blew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow over | past | row | time | over property | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | make | past | girl | the best laundress | girl's feathers | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laundress=Product | |||
| 3 | know | participle | the best laundress not said here | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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