The Red Fairy Book, The Money Bags., sentence 2
The old woman did not know him again, and dragged him in as she had done before, to help her to do the work; but she heard her husband coming, and hid him in the wardrobe, not thinking that it was the same boy who had stolen the hen.
Who acts: old woman, woman, husband, work, same boy · What happens: not know, drag in, do, help, hear, come · To what, where: Jack, woman, work, husband, wardrobe, same boy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Money Bags.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, woman, husband, work), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 know | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 know | advmod |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 know | obj |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 know | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 dragged | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 dragged | cc |
| 11 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 dragged | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 dragged | compound:prt |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 done | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 done | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 done | aux |
| 17 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 dragged | advcl |
| 18 | before | before | ADV | _ | 17 done | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 help | punct |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 help | mark |
| 21 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 done | advcl |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 help | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 do | mark |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 help | xcomp |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 work | det |
| 26 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 do | obj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 heard | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 heard | cc |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 heard | nsubj |
| 30 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | parataxis |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 husband | nmod:poss |
| 32 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 heard | obj |
| 33 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 heard | xcomp |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 hid | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 hid | cc |
| 36 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 heard | conj |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 hid | obj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 wardrobe | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 wardrobe | det |
| 40 | wardrobe | wardrobe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 hid | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 thinking | punct |
| 42 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 43 thinking | advmod |
| 43 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 heard | advcl |
| 44 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 49 boy | mark |
| 45 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 boy | nsubj |
| 46 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 boy | cop |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 boy | det |
| 48 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 boy | amod |
| 49 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 thinking | ccomp |
| 50 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 52 stolen | nsubj |
| 51 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 52 stolen | aux |
| 52 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 49 boy | acl |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 hen | det |
| 54 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 stolen | obj |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | the old woman | Jack | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | drag in | past | the old woman not said here | Jack | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | woman | before property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | help | to-infinitive | woman not said here | woman | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | woman not said here | the work | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | hear | past | woman | woman's husband | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | come | gerund | woman's husband not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | hide | past | woman not said here | Jack | the wardrobe | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient in wardrobe=Location | |||
| 9 | not think speech: other | gerund | woman not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 10 | is a | past | work | the same boy | tree rules | ||||
| 11 | steal | past · perfect | the same boy | the hen | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hen=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: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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