More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 13
No, I can't; another day p'raps I may," and went on till she came to the witch's house.
Who acts: girl · What happens: go on, come · To what, where: house
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), 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 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 ca | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 ca | nsubj |
| 4 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 ca | advmod |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 may | punct |
| 7 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 p'raps | det |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 p'raps | compound |
| 9 | p'raps | p'rap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 may | nsubj |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 may | nsubj |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 ca | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 may | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 may | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 went | cc |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 may | conj |
| 16 | on | on | ADV | _ | 15 went | advmod |
| 17 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 19 came | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 came | nsubj |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 went | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 house | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 witch | det |
| 22 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 house | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 witch | case |
| 24 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ca | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on in a quote | past | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | come in a quote | past | girl | the witch's house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_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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