More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 12
Then she came to the apple-tree, and the apple-tree asked her to help shake the fruit. "
Who acts: girl, apple tree · What happens: come, ask, help, shake · To what, where: apple tree, girl, fruit
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, apple tree), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 tree | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 6 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tree | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 apple | punct |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 asked | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tree | det |
| 12 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tree | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 apple | punct |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | nsubj |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 asked | iobj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 help | mark |
| 18 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 asked | xcomp |
| 19 | shake | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 help | xcomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 fruit | det |
| 21 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shake | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | girl | the apple tree | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tree=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the apple tree | girl | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | help not said to happen | to-infinitive | the apple tree not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | shake not said to happen | infinitive | the apple tree not said here | the fruit | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient |
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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