More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 9
But she only shook her ears, and went off to the forest, where she first bathed in the crystal spring, and then donned her coat of feathers, and so off to the ball-room.
Who acts: cook · What happens: shake, go off, bath, don · To what, where: ears, coat
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cook), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 shook | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 shook | nsubj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 shook | advmod |
| 4 | shook | shake | 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 | 6 ears | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 shook | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shook | parataxis |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 went | compound:prt |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 forest | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 forest | det |
| 13 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 bathed | punct |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 bathed | advmod |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 bathed | nsubj |
| 17 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 bathed | advmod |
| 18 | bathed | bath | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 spring | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 spring | det |
| 21 | crystal | crystal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 spring | amod |
| 22 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bathed | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 donned | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 donned | cc |
| 25 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 donned | advmod |
| 26 | donned | don | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shook | conj |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 coat | nmod:poss |
| 28 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 donned | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 feathers | case |
| 30 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 coat | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 off | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 off | cc |
| 33 | so | so | ADV | _ | 34 off | advmod |
| 34 | off | off | ADV | _ | 4 shook | parataxis |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 room | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 room | det |
| 37 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 room | compound |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 ball | punct |
| 39 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 off | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past | cook | cook's ears | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent ear=Patient | ||||
| 2 | go off | past | to the forest | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bath | past | cook | spring | first property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | don | past | cook not said here | cook's coat of feathers | then | vn simple_dressing-41.3.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=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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