More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 16
When she reached the apple-tree, she heard the witch coming after her, and she cried:
Who acts: girl, witch · What happens: reach, hear, come, cry · To what, where: apple tree, witch
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, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 heard | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 5 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tree | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 apple | punct |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 reached | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 heard | nsubj |
| 10 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 witch | det |
| 12 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heard | obj |
| 13 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 witch | acl |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 coming | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 cried | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 cried | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 cried | nsubj |
| 19 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 heard | conj |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | girl | the apple tree | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent tree=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | girl | the witch | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer witch=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | come | gerund | the witch not said here | after girl | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | girl | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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