English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Bears, sentence 62
Out the little old Woman jumped; and whether she broke her neck in the fall; or ran into the wood and was lost there; or found her way out of the wood, and was taken up by the constable and sent to the House of Correction for a vagrant as she was, I cannot tell.
Who acts: little old Woman, Woman, I · What happens: jump, break, run, lose, find, take up · To what, where: neck, fall, wood, way, House · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of the Three Bears. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little old Woman, Woman, I), 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 | Out | out | ADV | _ | 6 jumped | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Woman | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Woman | amod |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Woman | amod |
| 5 | Woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 jumped | nsubj |
| 6 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 broke | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 broke | cc |
| 9 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 11 broke | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 broke | nsubj |
| 11 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 jumped | conj |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 neck | nmod:poss |
| 13 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 broke | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 fall | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fall | det |
| 16 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 broke | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 ran | punct |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 ran | cc |
| 19 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 jumped | parataxis |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 wood | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 wood | det |
| 22 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ran | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 lost | cc |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 lost | aux:pass |
| 25 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 ran | conj |
| 26 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 lost | advmod |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 found | punct |
| 28 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 found | cc |
| 29 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 jumped | parataxis |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 way | nmod:poss |
| 31 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 found | obj |
| 32 | out | out | ADP | _ | 35 wood | case |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 wood | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 wood | det |
| 35 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 found | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 taken | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 taken | cc |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 taken | aux:pass |
| 39 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 found | conj |
| 40 | up | up | ADP | _ | 39 taken | compound:prt |
| 41 | by | by | ADP | _ | 43 constable | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 constable | det |
| 43 | constable | constable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 taken | obl |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 sent | cc |
| 45 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 taken | conj |
| 46 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 House | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 House | det |
| 48 | House | House | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 sent | obl |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 Correction | case |
| 50 | Correction | Correction | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 House | nmod |
| 51 | for | for | ADP | _ | 53 vagrant | case |
| 52 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 53 vagrant | det |
| 53 | vagrant | vagrant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 sent | obl |
| 54 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 56 was | mark |
| 55 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 56 was | nsubj |
| 56 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 sent | advcl |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 jumped | punct |
| 58 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 61 tell | nsubj |
| 59 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 61 tell | aux |
| 60 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 61 tell | advmod |
| 61 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 jumped | parataxis |
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | past | the little old Woman | out property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | break | past | Woman | Woman's neck | the fall | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer neck=Patient | |||
| 3 | run | past | into the wood result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into wood=Result | |||||
| 4 | lose | past · passive | there | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 5 | find | past | Woman's way | the wood | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | ||||
| 6 | take up | past · passive | by the constable | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 7 | send | participle | the House of Correction | for a vagrant | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to house=Destination | ||||
| 8 | be | past | Woman | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | not tell speech: assert | can | I | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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