More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 96

Meanwhile Tattercoats had heard of the great doings in the town, and she sat by the kitchen-door weeping because she could not go to see them.

Who acts: horse · What happens: hear, sit, not go, see · To what, where: Tattercoats

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 (horse), 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	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	2 Tattercoats	advmod
2	Tattercoats	tattercoat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 heard	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	aux
4	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 doings	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 doings	det
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 doings	amod
8	doings	doing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 heard	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 town	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 town	det
11	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 doings	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sat	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sat	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sat	nsubj
15	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	conj
16	by	by	ADP	_	21 weeping	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 weeping	det
18	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 weeping	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 kitchen	punct
20	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 weeping	compound
21	weeping	weeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sat	obl
22	because	because	SCONJ	_	26 go	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 go	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 go	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 go	advmod
26	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 sat	advcl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 see	mark
28	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 go	xcomp
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 see	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past · perfect · passive		Tattercoats	of the great doings in the town	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
2	sit	past	horse		by the kitchen door weeping	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by weeping=Location
3	not go	could	horse			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	see	to-infinitive	horse not said here	Tattercoats = tattercoat		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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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