English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 77
At midnight she went as before, and was angry with old Lucifer for letting the handkerchief go.
Who acts: cap, handkerchief · What happens: go, be, let · To what, where: handkerchief
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 (cap, handkerchief), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 midnight | case |
| 2 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 before | advmod |
| 6 | before | before | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 angry | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 angry | cc |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 angry | cop |
| 10 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 went | parataxis |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 Lucifer | case |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Lucifer | amod |
| 13 | Lucifer | Lucifer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 angry | obl |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 letting | mark |
| 15 | letting | let | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 angry | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 handkerchief | det |
| 17 | handkerchief | handkerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 letting | obj |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 letting | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | cap | midnight | before property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | with old Lucifer; angry property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | let | gerund | the handkerchief | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go | infinitive | the handkerchief not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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