English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 13
Well, she went away on and on till she came to a fen, and there she gathered a lot of rushes and made them into a kind of a sort of a cloak with a hood, to cover her from head to foot, and to hide her fine clothes.
Who acts: she · What happens: go away, come, gather, make, cover, hide · To what, where: fen, lot, rushes, kind, her, head
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 (she), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 on | cc |
| 8 | on | on | ADV | _ | 6 on | conj |
| 9 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 11 came | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 fen | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 fen | det |
| 14 | fen | fen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 gathered | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 gathered | cc |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 gathered | advmod |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gathered | nsubj |
| 19 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 lot | det |
| 21 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gathered | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 rushes | case |
| 23 | rushes | rush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 lot | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 made | cc |
| 25 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 made | obj |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 kind | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 kind | det |
| 29 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 made | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 sort | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 sort | det |
| 32 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 kind | nmod |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 cloak | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 cloak | det |
| 35 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 sort | nmod |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 hood | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 hood | det |
| 38 | hood | hood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 cloak | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 cover | punct |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 cover | mark |
| 41 | cover | cover | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 25 made | parataxis |
| 42 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 cover | obj |
| 43 | from | from | ADP | _ | 44 head | case |
| 44 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 cover | obl |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 foot | case |
| 46 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 cover | obl |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 hide | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 hide | cc |
| 49 | to | to | PART | _ | 50 hide | mark |
| 50 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 41 cover | conj |
| 51 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 hide | obj |
| 52 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 clothes | amod |
| 53 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 50 hide | obj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | past | she | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | she | a fen | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to fen=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | gather | past | she | a lot of rushes | there | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme | |||
| 4 | make | past | she not said here | rushes = rush | a kind of a sort of a cloak with a hood | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent they=Material into kind=Product | |||
| 5 | cover | to-infinitive | her = she | head | to foot | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Destination | |||
| 6 | hide | to-infinitive | her = she | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | sort | a cloak with a hood | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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