More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 101
And with that she up with a ladle and broke it across Catskin's back.
Who acts: slut · What happens: break · To what, where: ladle, back
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (slut), 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 | _ | 10 broke | cc |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 that | case |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 she | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 broke | nsubj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 she | compound:prt |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 ladle | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 ladle | det |
| 8 | ladle | ladle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 she | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 she | cc |
| 10 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 broke | obj |
| 12 | across | across | ADP | _ | 15 back | case |
| 13 | Catskin | Catskin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 back | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 Catskin | case |
| 15 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 broke | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | slut | ladle | Catskin's back | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=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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