English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 104
Off the castle went at full speed, with the women laughing at them through the window, while they made motions for them to stop, but all to no purpose.
Who acts: women, man · What happens: go, laugh, make, stop · To what, where: full speed, window, motions
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 (women, man), 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 | Off | off | ADP | _ | 3 castle | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 castle | det |
| 3 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 speed | case |
| 6 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 speed | amod |
| 7 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 women | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 women | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 women | det |
| 11 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 went | obl |
| 12 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 women | acl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 laughing | obl |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 17 window | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 window | det |
| 17 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 laughing | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 made | punct |
| 19 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 21 made | mark |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 made | nsubj |
| 21 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 22 | motions | motion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 made | obj |
| 23 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 stop | mark |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 stop | nsubj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 stop | mark |
| 26 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 made | advcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 purpose | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 purpose | cc |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 purpose | det |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 purpose | case |
| 31 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 32 purpose | det |
| 32 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | full speed | off the castle; with the women; to all purpose | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme off castle=Initial_Location to purpose=Destination | ||||
| 2 | laugh | gerund | the women not said here | the window | at man | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | make | past | man | motions | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset motion=Product | ||||
| 4 | stop | to-infinitive | man | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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