English Fairy Tales, Mr. Vinegar, sentence 3
In an agony of grief she rushed forth to meet her husband.
Who acts: house · What happens: rush, meet · To what, where: agony, husband
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mr. Vinegar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (house), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 agony | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 agony | det |
| 3 | agony | agony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rushed | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 grief | case |
| 5 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 agony | nmod |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 rushed | nsubj |
| 7 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 7 rushed | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 meet | mark |
| 10 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 rushed | advcl |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 husband | nmod:poss |
| 12 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 meet | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | past | house | a agony of grief | forth property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in agony=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | meet | to-infinitive | house not said here | house's husband | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Co-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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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