Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 206

She skipped so fast among the eggs, she trod so closely beside them, that you would have thought she must crush them all.

Who acts: MIGNON, you · What happens: skip, tread, think, crush · To what, where: eggs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Antonio Canova.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (MIGNON, you), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 skipped	nsubj
2	skipped	skip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 fast	advmod
4	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 skipped	advmod
5	among	among	ADP	_	7 eggs	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 eggs	det
7	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 skipped	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 trod	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 trod	nsubj
10	trod	tread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 skipped	parataxis
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 closely	advmod
12	closely	closely	ADV	_	10 trod	advmod
13	beside	beside	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 trod	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 thought	punct
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 thought	mark
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 thought	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 thought	aux
19	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 thought	aux
20	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 trod	conj
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 crush	nsubj
22	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 crush	aux
23	crush	crush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 thought	ccomp
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 crush	obj
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 them	nmod:unmarked
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 skipped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	skip	past	MIGNON		the eggs	fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among egg=Trajectory
2	tread	past	MIGNON			beside eggs = egg; closely property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside they=Trajectory
3	think speech: other	would · perfect	you				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	crush	must	MIGNON	eggs = egg			vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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