More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 108

When the witch had gone down another way, the girl went on again, and just as she got to the cow heard the witch coming after her again, so she ran to the cow and cried:

Who acts: witch, girl, cow · What happens: go down, go on, get, hear, come, run · 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, girl, cow), 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	SCONJ	_	5 gone	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 witch	det
3	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gone	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	aux
5	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 way	csubj
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 gone	compound:prt
7	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 way	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 girl	det
11	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	on	on	ADV	_	12 went	advmod
14	again	again	ADV	_	12 went	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 got	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 got	cc
17	just	just	ADV	_	20 got	advmod
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 got	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 got	nsubj
20	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 went	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 cow	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 cow	det
23	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 heard	nsubj
24	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 got	parataxis
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 witch	det
26	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 heard	obj
27	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 witch	acl
28	after	after	ADP	_	29 her	case
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 coming	obl
30	again	again	ADV	_	27 coming	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 ran	punct
32	so	so	ADV	_	34 ran	advmod
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 ran	nsubj
34	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 heard	parataxis
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 cow	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 cow	det
37	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 ran	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 cried	cc
39	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 ran	conj
40	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go down	past · perfect	the witch				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	go on	past	the girl	another way	again		vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	get	past	Witch				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	hear	past	the cow	the witch			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer witch=Stimulus
5	come	gerund	the witch not said here		after Witch; again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	run	past	cow			to the cow result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to cow=Result
7	cry speech: express	past	cow not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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