More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 77
Well, she went all about the town, but no one wanted a girl like her.
Who acts: Swaffham, one · What happens: go, want · To what, where: girl
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 (Swaffham, one), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 town | advmod |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 town | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 town | det |
| 8 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wanted | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 wanted | cc |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 one | det |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wanted | nsubj |
| 13 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 girl | det |
| 15 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wanted | obj |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 her | case |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 wanted | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Swaffham | about the town | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about town=Location | ||||
| 2 | want | past | no one | a girl | like Swaffham | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot girl=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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