More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 70
So she grew up a bonny girl, though her father never set eyes on her till she was fifteen years old and was ready to be married.
Who acts: wife, father · What happens: grow up, not set, be, marry · To what, where: bonny girl, eyes
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 (wife, father), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 grew | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 grew | compound:prt |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 girl | det |
| 6 | bonny | bonny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 girl | compound |
| 7 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 set | punct |
| 9 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 13 set | mark |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 father | nmod:poss |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 set | nsubj |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 set | advmod |
| 13 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | conj |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 set | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 set | obj |
| 17 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 22 old | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 old | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 old | cop |
| 20 | fifteen | fifteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 years | nummod |
| 21 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 old | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 set | advcl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 ready | cc |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 ready | cop |
| 25 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 old | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 married | mark |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 married | aux:pass |
| 28 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 ready | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow up | past | wife | a bonny girl | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location girl=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not set | past | wife's father | eyes | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme her=Destination | ||||
| 3 | is | past | wife | year | old property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is | past | wife not said here | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | marry | to-infinitive · passive | wife not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» |
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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