English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 180

So she turned tail and ran back home, so she never told the king the sky was a-falling.

Who acts: Snap, sky · What happens: turn, run back, not tell, be · To what, where: tail, king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack the Giant-killer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Snap, sky), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 turned	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 ran	cc
6	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	conj
7	back	back	ADV	_	8 home	advmod
8	home	home	ADV	_	6 ran	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 told	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 told	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	nsubj
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 told	advmod
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 king	det
15	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 told	obj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sky	det
17	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 falling	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 falling	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 falling	det
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 a	punct
21	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 told	ccomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	turn	past	Snap	tail			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tail=Theme
2	run back	past	Snap not said here			home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not tell speech: assert	past	Snap		the king		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic
4	is	past	the sky			fall property	tree rules

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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