More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 113
But she was too quick for him, and got home long before the rest, and the red calf had the dinner all ready.
Who acts: Rushen, red calf · What happens: be, get, have · To what, where: dinner
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, red calf), 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 quick | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 quick | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 quick | cop |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 quick | advmod |
| 5 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 quick | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 got | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 got | cc |
| 10 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 quick | parataxis |
| 11 | home | home | ADV | _ | 10 got | advmod |
| 12 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 got | advmod |
| 13 | before | before | ADP | _ | 15 rest | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 rest | det |
| 15 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 got | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 had | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 had | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 calf | det |
| 19 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 calf | amod |
| 20 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 had | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 got | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 dinner | det |
| 23 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 had | obj |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 ready | advmod |
| 25 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 had | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 quick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Rushen | for Prince; quick property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | past | before the rest | home, long property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | have | past | the red calf | the dinner | ready property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/28/113/