More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 81
So there she hid her fine dresses, and went up to the castle gates, and asked for work.
Who acts: first · What happens: hide, go up, ask · To what, where: fine dresses
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 (first), 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 | _ | 2 there | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 hid | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hid | nsubj |
| 4 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 dresses | nmod:poss |
| 6 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dresses | amod |
| 7 | dresses | dress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hid | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hid | conj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 went | compound:prt |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 gates | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 gates | det |
| 14 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gates | compound |
| 15 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 went | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 asked | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 asked | cc |
| 18 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hid | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 work | case |
| 20 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 asked | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past | first | first's fine dresses | there | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Patient | |||
| 2 | go up | past | first not said here | to the castle gates | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | first not said here | for work | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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