More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 104

But presently she began to think how she could best take it home with her; and she couldn't see any other way than by fastening one end of her shawl to it, and so dragging it after her along the road.

Who acts: Mercy · What happens: begin, think, take, not see, fasten, drag · To what, where: gold, other way, one end · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mercy), 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	_	4 began	cc
2	presently	presently	ADV	_	4 began	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 think	mark
6	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 take	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 take	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 take	aux
10	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 take	nsubj
11	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 think	ccomp
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 take	obj
13	home	home	ADV	_	11 take	advmod
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 her	case
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 take	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 see	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 see	cc
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 see	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 see	aux
20	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 see	advmod
21	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	conj
22	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	24 way	det
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 way	amod
24	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 see	obj
25	than	than	SCONJ	_	27 fastening	mark
26	by	by	SCONJ	_	27 fastening	mark
27	fastening	fasten	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 see	advcl
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 end	nummod
29	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fastening	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 shawl	case
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 shawl	nmod:poss
32	shawl	shawl	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 end	nmod
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 fastening	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 dragging	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 dragging	cc
37	so	so	ADV	_	38 dragging	advmod
38	dragging	drag	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 began	advcl
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 dragging	obj
40	after	after	ADP	_	41 her	case
41	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 dragging	obl
42	along	along	ADP	_	44 road	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 road	det
44	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 dragging	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Mercy				presently property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	think speech: other	to-infinitive	Mercy not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	take	could	Mercy	gold			with side; home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	not see	could	Mercy	any other way				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus
5	fasten	gerund	Mercy not said here	one end of Mercy's shawl	gold			vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent end=Patient to it=Co-Patient
6	drag	gerund	Mercy not said here	gold		after Mercy	along the road	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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