More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 112
But the red calf came to her help again, gave her finer clothes than before, and she went to church, where all the world was looking at her, and wondering where such a grand lady came from, and the prince fell more in love with her than ever, and tried to find out where she went to.
Who acts: red calf, Rushen, world, grand lady, prince · What happens: come, give, go, look, wonder, fall · To what, where: help, finer clothes, Rushen, church, more · 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 (red calf, Rushen, world, grand lady), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 came | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 calf | det |
| 3 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 calf | amod |
| 4 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 help | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 help | nmod:poss |
| 8 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gave | punct |
| 11 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gave | iobj |
| 13 | finer | fine | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 clothes | amod |
| 14 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 11 gave | obj |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 before | case |
| 16 | before | before | ADV | _ | 14 clothes | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 went | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 went | cc |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 went | nsubj |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 church | case |
| 22 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 went | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 looking | punct |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 29 looking | advmod |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 world | det:predet |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 world | det |
| 27 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 looking | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 looking | aux |
| 29 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 went | advcl |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 her | case |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 looking | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 wondering | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 wondering | cc |
| 34 | wondering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 looking | conj |
| 35 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 40 came | advmod |
| 36 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 39 lady | det:predet |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 lady | det |
| 38 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 lady | amod |
| 39 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 came | nsubj |
| 40 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 wondering | advcl |
| 41 | from | from | ADP | _ | 40 came | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 fell | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 fell | cc |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 prince | det |
| 45 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 fell | nsubj |
| 46 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 47 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 46 fell | obj |
| 48 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 love | case |
| 49 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 more | obl |
| 50 | with | with | ADP | _ | 51 her | case |
| 51 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 fell | obl |
| 52 | than | than | ADP | _ | 53 ever | case |
| 53 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 46 fell | obl |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 tried | punct |
| 55 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 tried | cc |
| 56 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 57 | to | to | PART | _ | 58 find | mark |
| 58 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 56 tried | xcomp |
| 59 | out | out | ADP | _ | 58 find | compound:prt |
| 60 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 62 went | advmod |
| 61 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 62 went | nsubj |
| 62 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 58 find | ccomp |
| 63 | to | to | ADP | _ | 62 went | obl |
| 64 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the red calf | Rushen's help | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to help=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | give | past | the red calf not said here | finer clothes | Rushen | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clothes=Theme | |||
| 3 | go | past | Rushen | church | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | look | past · progressive | all world | at Rushen | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | ||||
| 5 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | all world not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | come | past | such grand lady | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | fall | past | the prince | more | with Rushen | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient more=Result | |||
| 8 | try | past | the red calf not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 9 | find out not said to happen | to-infinitive | the red calf not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 10 | go | past | Rushen | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 11 | help | Rushen | nom help «act transitive»: poss=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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