More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 85
So she set one of her ugly daughters on the watch at meal times to find out how Rushen Coatie got enough to live on.
Who acts: wife, Rushen · What happens: set, find out, get, live on · To what, where: one
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 (wife, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 set | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 set | nsubj |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 set | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 daughters | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 daughters | amod |
| 8 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 one | nmod |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 watch | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 watch | det |
| 11 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 daughters | nmod |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 times | case |
| 13 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 times | compound |
| 14 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 set | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 find | mark |
| 16 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 set | advcl |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 find | compound:prt |
| 18 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 got | advmod |
| 19 | Rushen | Rushen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 got | nsubj |
| 20 | Coatie | Coatie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Rushen | flat |
| 21 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 find | advcl |
| 22 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 21 got | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 live | mark |
| 24 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 got | xcomp |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 live | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | wife | one of wife's ugly daughters on the watch | time | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient one=Result | |||
| 2 | find out | to-infinitive | wife not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | get | past | Rushen | enough property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | live on | to-infinitive | Rushen not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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