More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 77
So they called her Rushen Coatie, and made her sit in the kitchen nook, amid the ashes.
Who acts: daughters, wife · What happens: call, make, sit · To what, where: wife, kitchen nook · 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 (daughters, wife), 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 | _ | 3 called | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 Rushen | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Rushen | Rushen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 called | xcomp |
| 6 | Coatie | Coatie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Rushen | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 made | cc |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | conj |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 made | obj |
| 11 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 made | xcomp |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 nook | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 nook | det |
| 14 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 nook | compound |
| 15 | nook | nook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sit | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 amid | punct |
| 17 | amid | amid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 nook | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ashes | det |
| 19 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 amid | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | daughters = daughter | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | make | past | daughters = daughter not said here | wife | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sit | infinitive | wife not said here | the kitchen nook and amid | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in nook=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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