More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 2
It wasn't very long, however, before she got tired again and stopped once more to rest for a minute or two.
Who acts: money, she · What happens: not be, get, stop, rest · To what, where: more
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 (money, she), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 long | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 long | cop |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 long | advmod |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 long | advmod |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 however | punct |
| 7 | however | however | ADV | _ | 5 long | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 got | punct |
| 9 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 11 got | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 got | nsubj |
| 11 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 long | parataxis |
| 12 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 got | xcomp |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 tired | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 stopped | cc |
| 15 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 got | conj |
| 16 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 17 more | advmod |
| 17 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 stopped | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 rest | mark |
| 19 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 more | advcl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 minute | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 minute | det |
| 22 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rest | obl |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 two | cc |
| 24 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 minute | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | money | however, long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | past | she | tired property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | stop | past | she not said here | more | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality more=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | rest | to-infinitive | she not said here | minute | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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