More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 46
And as she wandered she plucked the flowers from the bushes.
Who acts: Janet · What happens: wander, pluck · To what, where: flowers, bushes
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Janet), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 plucked | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 wandered | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wandered | nsubj |
| 4 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 plucked | advcl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 plucked | nsubj |
| 6 | plucked | pluck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 flowers | det |
| 8 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 plucked | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 bushes | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bushes | det |
| 11 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 plucked | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 plucked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | past | Janet | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | pluck | past | Janet | the flowers | the bushes | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent flower=Theme from bush=Source |
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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