English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 66
So she threw down her pail and went to see if she could wed the sleeping stranger.
Who acts: daughter · What happens: throw down, go, see, wed · To what, where: pail, sleeping stranger
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 (daughter), 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 threw | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 threw | nsubj |
| 3 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 threw | compound:prt |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 pail | nmod:poss |
| 6 | pail | pail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 threw | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 went | cc |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 threw | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 see | mark |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 went | xcomp |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 wed | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 wed | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 wed | aux |
| 14 | wed | wed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 see | ccomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 stranger | det |
| 16 | sleeping | sleeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stranger | compound |
| 17 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wed | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw down | past | daughter | daughter's pail | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pail=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | daughter not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | daughter not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | wed a condition, not said to happen | could | daughter | the sleeping stranger | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=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: «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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