More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 21
Delighted to hear this, the girl got up and returned homewards.
Who acts: girl · What happens: hear, get up, return · To what, where: this, homewards
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 (girl), 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 | Delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hear | advcl |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 hear | mark |
| 3 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 hear | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 got | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 girl | det |
| 7 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 got | nsubj |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hear | parataxis |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 got | compound:prt |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 returned | cc |
| 11 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 got | conj |
| 12 | homewards | homeward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 returned | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | to-infinitive | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | get up | past | the girl | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | return | past | the girl not said here | homewards | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homeward=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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