English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 10
The old woman made the big cake, and she went on top of the house, and she cursed him as far as she could see him.
Who acts: old woman, woman · What happens: make, go, curse, see · To what, where: big cake, top, God
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, woman), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cake | det |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cake | amod |
| 7 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 top | case |
| 13 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 house | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 house | det |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 top | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 cursed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 cursed | cc |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 cursed | nsubj |
| 20 | cursed | curse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 cursed | obj |
| 22 | as | as | ADV | _ | 23 far | advmod |
| 23 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 cursed | advmod |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 see | mark |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 see | nsubj |
| 26 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 see | aux |
| 27 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 far | advcl |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 see | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the old woman | the big cake | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Product | ||||
| 2 | go | past | woman | top of the house | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on top=Location | ||||
| 3 | curse | past | woman | God | far property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 4 | see | could | woman | God | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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