English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 12
So he drove her out there and then, and shut the door in her face.
Who acts: gentleman · What happens: drive, shut · To what, where: her, door, face
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Cap O' Rushes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gentleman), 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 drove | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drove | nsubj |
| 3 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drove | obj |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 6 there | advmod |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 drove | advcl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 then | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 there | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 shut | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 shut | cc |
| 11 | shut | shut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 drove | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 door | det |
| 13 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shut | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 face | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 face | nmod:poss |
| 16 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shut | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | past | gentleman | her = she | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shut | infinitive | gentleman not said here | the door | her face | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=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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