More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 65
She was fast, and must stay fast.
Who acts: goodwife · What happens: be, stay
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 (goodwife), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fast | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fast | cop |
| 3 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 stay | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 stay | cc |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 stay | aux |
| 7 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 fast | parataxis |
| 8 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 stay | advmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | goodwife | fast property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stay | must | fast property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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