More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 22
Habetrot soon overtook her, and placed the yarn in her hands. "
Who acts: Habetrot · What happens: overtake, place · To what, where: girl, yarn, hands
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 (Habetrot), 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 | Habetrot | Habetrot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 overtook | nsubj |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 overtook | advmod |
| 3 | overtook | overtake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 overtook | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 placed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 placed | cc |
| 7 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 overtook | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 yarn | det |
| 9 | yarn | yarn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 placed | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 hands | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hands | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 placed | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 overtook | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 overtook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overtake | past | Habetrot | girl | soon property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | place | past | Habetrot not said here | the yarn | girl's hands | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent yarn=Theme in hand=Destination |
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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