More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 103
So Rushen Coatie said this, and went off to church, and she was the grandest and finest lady there.
Who acts: Rushen · What happens: say, go off, be · To what, where: this · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rushen), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | Rushen | Rushen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 3 | Coatie | Coatie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Rushen | flat |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 said | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 went | cc |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 went | compound:prt |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 church | case |
| 11 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 grandest | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 grandest | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 grandest | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 grandest | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 grandest | det |
| 17 | grandest | grand | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 said | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 lady | cc |
| 19 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 lady | amod |
| 20 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 grandest | conj |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 lady | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Rushen | this | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go off | past | Rushen not said here | to church | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Rushen | grand property | tree rules |
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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