More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 16
And, all in a hurry to see how the stone would look in its corner by her door, she trotted off down the hill, and stopped at the foot, beside her own little gate.
Who acts: stone, niver · What happens: see, look, trot off, stop · To what, where: hill, foot · 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 (stone, niver), 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 | _ | 6 hurry | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hurry | punct |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 hurry | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 hurry | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hurry | det |
| 6 | hurry | hurry | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 see | mark |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 hurry | acl |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 look | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stone | det |
| 11 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 look | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 look | aux |
| 13 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 see | ccomp |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 corner | case |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 corner | nmod:poss |
| 16 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 look | obl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 door | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 door | nmod:poss |
| 19 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 look | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 trotted | punct |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 trotted | nsubj |
| 22 | trotted | trot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 look | parataxis |
| 23 | off | off | ADP | _ | 22 trotted | compound:prt |
| 24 | down | down | ADP | _ | 26 hill | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 hill | det |
| 26 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 trotted | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 stopped | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 stopped | cc |
| 29 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 trotted | parataxis |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 foot | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 foot | det |
| 32 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 stopped | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 gate | punct |
| 34 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 38 gate | case |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 gate | nmod:poss |
| 36 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 gate | amod |
| 37 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 gate | amod |
| 38 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 stopped | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hurry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | look | would | the stone | by niver's door; in stone's corner | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in corner=Theme | ||||
| 3 | trot off | past | niver | the hill | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down hill=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | stop | past | the foot | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at foot=Location |
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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