English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 42
So they determined to run away together and after the giant's daughter had tidied up her hair a bit and got her magic flask they set out together as fast as they could run.
Who acts: eggs · What happens: determine, run away, tidy up, get, set out, run · To what, where: hair, magic flask
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Nix Nought Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eggs), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 determined | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 determined | nsubj |
| 3 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 run | mark |
| 5 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 determined | xcomp |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 run | advmod |
| 7 | together | together | ADV | _ | 5 run | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 tidied | cc |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 daughter | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 giant | det |
| 11 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 giant | case |
| 13 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tidied | obl |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 tidied | aux |
| 15 | tidied | tidy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 run | advcl |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 tidied | compound:prt |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hair | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tidied | obj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 bit | det |
| 20 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tidied | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 got | cc |
| 22 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 determined | conj |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 flask | nmod:poss |
| 24 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 flask | amod |
| 25 | flask | flask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 got | obj |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 set | nsubj |
| 27 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 flask | acl:relcl |
| 28 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 set | compound:prt |
| 29 | together | together | ADV | _ | 27 set | advmod |
| 30 | as | as | ADV | _ | 31 fast | advmod |
| 31 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 set | advmod |
| 32 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 35 run | mark |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 run | nsubj |
| 34 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 run | aux |
| 35 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 fast | advcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | past | eggs = egg | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | run away | to-infinitive | eggs = egg not said here | away, together property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tidy up | past · perfect | eggs = egg not said here | daughter's hair | after the giant's daughter | a bit obl:unmarked | tree rules | ||
| 4 | get | past | eggs = egg not said here | daughter's magic flask | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flask=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | set out | past | eggs = egg | daughter's magic flask not said here | fast, together property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | run | could | eggs = egg | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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