More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 25
Scarcely believing her eyes, the girl went home, where she found her mother had been busy making sausters, and hanging them up in the chimney to dry, and then, tired out, had retired to rest.
Who acts: girl, mother · What happens: believe, go, find, be, make, hang up · To what, where: eyes, sausters, chimney · Speech: someone speaks here
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, mother), 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 | Scarcely | scarcely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | believing | believe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Scarcely | advcl |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 believing | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 girl | det |
| 7 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Scarcely | conj |
| 9 | home | home | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 found | punct |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 found | advmod |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 found | nsubj |
| 13 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | parataxis |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 mother | nmod:poss |
| 15 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 busy | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 busy | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 busy | cop |
| 18 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 found | ccomp |
| 19 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 busy | advcl |
| 20 | sausters | sauster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 making | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 retired | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 retired | cc |
| 23 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 39 retired | advcl |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 hanging | obj |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 hanging | compound:prt |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 chimney | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 chimney | det |
| 28 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hanging | obl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 dry | mark |
| 30 | dry | dry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 hanging | advcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 tired | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 tired | cc |
| 33 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 35 tired | advmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 tired | punct |
| 35 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 dry | ccomp |
| 36 | out | out | ADP | _ | 35 tired | compound:prt |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 hanging | punct |
| 38 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 retired | aux |
| 39 | retired | retire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 found | conj |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 rest | mark |
| 41 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 retired | xcomp |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Scarcely | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | gerund | girl's eyes | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | go | past | the girl | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | past | girl | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past · perfect | girl's mother | busy property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | make | gerund | girl's mother not said here | sausters | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sauster=Product | ||||
| 6 | hang up | gerund | sausters = sauster | the chimney | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in chimney=Destination | ||||
| 7 | dry | to-infinitive | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 8 | retire | past · perfect | girl not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | rest | to-infinitive | girl not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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