More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 14
Well, it happened to her just the same as to the other girl--she forgot what she was told, and one day when the witch was out, looked up the chimney, and down fell a bag of money.
Who acts: it, girl, witch · What happens: happen, forget, tell, be, look up, fall · To what, where: girl, chimney, bag · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (it, girl, witch), 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 happened | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 happened | obl |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 same | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 same | det |
| 9 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 happened | parataxis |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 14 girl | case |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 as | fixed |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 girl | det |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 girl | amod |
| 14 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 same | obl |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 forgot | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 forgot | nsubj |
| 17 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 happened | parataxis |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 forgot | obj |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 told | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 told | aux:pass |
| 21 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 what | acl:relcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 day | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 day | cc |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 day | nummod |
| 25 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 forgot | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 out | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 witch | det |
| 28 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 out | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 out | cop |
| 30 | out | out | ADV | _ | 25 day | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 looked | punct |
| 32 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 forgot | conj |
| 33 | up | up | ADP | _ | 32 looked | compound:prt |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 chimney | det |
| 35 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 looked | obl:unmarked |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 fell | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 fell | cc |
| 38 | down | down | ADV | _ | 39 fell | advmod |
| 39 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 happened | conj |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 bag | det |
| 41 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 fell | obj |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 money | case |
| 43 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 bag | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | girl | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | forget | past | girl | day | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | girl | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | is | past | the witch | out property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | look up | past | girl not said here | the chimney | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | fall | past | a bag of money | down property | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient bag=Result |
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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