More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 97
When she did this a great bag of money fell down in her lap.
Who acts: Witch, great bag · What happens: do, fall down · To what, where: this, lap
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, great bag), 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 | 3 did | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fell | advcl |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 did | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bag | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bag | amod |
| 7 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fell | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 money | case |
| 9 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bag | nmod |
| 10 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 fell | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 lap | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 lap | nmod:poss |
| 14 | lap | lap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fell | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Witch | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | fall down | past | a great bag of money | Witch's lap | down property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in lap=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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