English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 55
And her sister, coming behind her, caught her round the waist and dashed her into the rushing mill-stream of Binnorie.
Who acts: sister · What happens: come, catch, dash, rush · To what, where: William, rushing mill stream
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack Hannaford. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 sister | cc |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 sister | nmod:poss |
| 3 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 caught | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 coming | punct |
| 5 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 sister | acl |
| 6 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 coming | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sister | punct |
| 9 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 caught | obj |
| 11 | round | round | ADP | _ | 13 waist | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 waist | det |
| 13 | waist | waist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 caught | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 dashed | cc |
| 15 | dashed | dash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 caught | conj |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 dashed | obj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 stream | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 stream | det |
| 19 | rushing | rush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 stream | amod |
| 20 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stream | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 mill | punct |
| 22 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dashed | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Binnorie | case |
| 24 | Binnorie | Binnorie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 stream | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | gerund | William's sister not said here | behind sister | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind she=Location | ||||
| 2 | catch | past | William's sister | William | round the waist | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 3 | dash | past | William's sister not said here | William | into the rushing mill stream of Binnorie result | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent she=Patient into stream=Result | |||
| 4 | rush | gerund | 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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