More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 81
She went to the market her eggs for to sell; She went to the market, all on a market-day, And she fell asleep on the king's highway.
Who acts: woman · What happens: go, sell, fall · To what, where: eggs, all, market, highway
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 (woman), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 market | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 market | det |
| 5 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eggs | nmod:poss |
| 7 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 went | obj |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 sell | mark |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 sell | mark |
| 10 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 went | advcl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 12 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 market | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 market | det |
| 16 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 all | punct |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 went | obl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 day | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 day | det |
| 21 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 day | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 market | punct |
| 23 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 all | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 fell | punct |
| 25 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 fell | cc |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 fell | nsubj |
| 27 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 went | conj |
| 28 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 fell | xcomp |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 highway | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 king | det |
| 31 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 highway | nmod:poss |
| 32 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 31 king | case |
| 33 | highway | highway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fell | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | woman | woman's eggs | to the market | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sell | to-infinitive | woman not said here | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go | past | woman | all | the market | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to market=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | fall | past | woman | the king's highway | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on highway=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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