More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 11
And on she trotted again chuckling to herself on her good luck, till presently she glanced over her shoulder, "just to make sure it was there still," as she said to herself.
Who acts: niver, shoulder · What happens: trot, chuckle, glance, make, be, say · To what, where: niver, good luck, shoulder · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (niver, shoulder), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 trotted | cc |
| 2 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 4 trotted | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 trotted | nsubj |
| 4 | trotted | trot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 trotted | advmod |
| 6 | chuckling | chuckle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 trotted | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 herself | case |
| 8 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 chuckling | obl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 luck | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 luck | nmod:poss |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 luck | amod |
| 12 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chuckling | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 glanced | punct |
| 14 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 17 glanced | mark |
| 15 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 17 glanced | advmod |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 glanced | nsubj |
| 17 | glanced | glance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 trotted | conj |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 shoulder | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 20 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 glanced | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 make | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 make | punct |
| 23 | just | just | ADV | _ | 25 make | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 make | mark |
| 25 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 glanced | parataxis |
| 26 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 make | xcomp |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 there | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 there | cop |
| 29 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 make | advmod |
| 30 | still | still | ADV | _ | 29 there | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 make | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 make | punct |
| 33 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 35 said | mark |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 said | nsubj |
| 35 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 glanced | advcl |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 herself | case |
| 37 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 35 said | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 trotted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trot | past | niver | again | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | chuckle | gerund | niver not said here | niver | niver's good luck | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient | |||
| 3 | glance | past | niver | niver's shoulder | presently property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | make in a quote | to-infinitive | sure property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | past | shoulder | still | there property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | niver | niver | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient |
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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