More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 83
So down she went into the kitchen, and they called her Catskin, because of her dress.
Who acts: first, dresses · What happens: go, call · To what, where: kitchen · 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 (first, dresses), 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 down | advmod |
| 2 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 kitchen | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 kitchen | det |
| 7 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 called | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 called | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 called | nsubj |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | parataxis |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 Catskin | nmod:poss |
| 13 | Catskin | Catskin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 called | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 dress | punct |
| 15 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 18 dress | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 because | fixed |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 dress | nmod:poss |
| 18 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 called | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | first | the kitchen | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into kitchen=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | call | past | dresses = dress | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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