More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 114
The next day the calf dressed her in even grander clothes than before, and she went to the church.
Who acts: calf, Rushen · What happens: dress, go · To what, where: Rushen, grander clothes, church
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 (calf, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dressed | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 calf | det |
| 5 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dressed | nsubj |
| 6 | dressed | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 dressed | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 clothes | case |
| 9 | even | even | ADV | _ | 10 grander | advmod |
| 10 | grander | grand | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 clothes | amod |
| 11 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 6 dressed | obl |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 before | case |
| 13 | before | before | ADV | _ | 11 clothes | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dressed | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 church | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 church | det |
| 20 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | past | the calf | Rushen | grander clothes | day | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||
| 2 | go | past | Rushen | the church | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location |
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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