English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 83
But before the wedding she went to the cook, and says she:
Who acts: maid · What happens: go, say · To what, where: cook, maid · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (maid), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 went | cc |
| 2 | before | before | ADP | _ | 4 wedding | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wedding | det |
| 4 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 cook | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cook | det |
| 9 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 says | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 says | cc |
| 12 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 says | obj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | maid | the cook | before the wedding | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cook=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | maid not said here | maid | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
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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