More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 116
She didn't wait to pick it up, you may be sure, but off she ran home, as fast as she could go, on with the rushen coatie, and the calf had all things ready.
Who acts: Rushen, you, calf · What happens: not wait, pick up, be, run, go, have · To what, where: guard, rushen coatie, things
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, you, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wait | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wait | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 wait | advmod |
| 4 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 pick | mark |
| 6 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wait | advcl |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 pick | obj |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 pick | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sure | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 sure | nsubj |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 sure | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 sure | cop |
| 13 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wait | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 had | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 37 had | cc |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 ran | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 ran | nsubj |
| 18 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 had | advcl |
| 19 | home | home | ADV | _ | 18 ran | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fast | punct |
| 21 | as | as | ADV | _ | 22 fast | advmod |
| 22 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 ran | advmod |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 go | mark |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 go | nsubj |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 go | aux |
| 26 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 fast | advcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 coatie | punct |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 coatie | case |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 coatie | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 coatie | det |
| 31 | rushen | rushen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 coatie | compound |
| 32 | coatie | coatie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 go | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 had | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 had | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 calf | det |
| 36 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 had | nsubj |
| 37 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 sure | parataxis |
| 38 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 things | det |
| 39 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 had | obj |
| 40 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 had | xcomp |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wait | past · do-support | Rushen | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | pick up | to-infinitive | Rushen not said here | guard | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is | may | you | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | run | past | Rushen | fast, home property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go | could | Rushen | the rushen coatie | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on coatie=Location | ||||
| 6 | have | past | the calf | all things | ready property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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.
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