More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 89
When the day of the ball arrived, Catskin slipped out of the house and went to the edge of the forest where she had hidden her dresses.
Who acts: day, Catskin · What happens: arrive, slip out, go, hide · To what, where: house, edge, 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 (day, Catskin), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 arrived | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 arrived | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 ball | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ball | det |
| 6 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | nmod |
| 7 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 slipped | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 arrived | punct |
| 9 | Catskin | Catskin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 slipped | nsubj |
| 10 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 house | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 house | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 house | det |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 slipped | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 slipped | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 edge | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 edge | det |
| 19 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 forest | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 forest | det |
| 22 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 edge | nmod |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 hidden | advmod |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 hidden | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 hidden | aux |
| 26 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 forest | acl:relcl |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 dresses | nmod:poss |
| 28 | dresses | dress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 hidden | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 slipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | the day of the ball | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | slip out | past | Catskin | the house | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent house=Patient | ||||
| 3 | go | past | Catskin not said here | the edge of the forest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to edge=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | hide | past · perfect | Catskin | Catskin's dresses | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Patient |
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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