More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 100
When she had gone some way she heard the witch coming after her.
Who acts: Witch · What happens: go, hear, come · To what, where: way, witch
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Witch), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 gone | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | aux |
| 4 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 way | det |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gone | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 heard | nsubj |
| 8 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 way | acl:relcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 witch | det |
| 10 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heard | obj |
| 11 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 witch | acl |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 coming | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | Witch | some way | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | Witch | the witch | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer witch=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | come | gerund | the witch not said here | after Witch | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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