English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, sentence 19
So Molly took care and did not fall asleep, but waited till she was sure every one was sleeping sound.
Who acts: Molly, one · What happens: take, not fall, wait, be, sleep · To what, where: care, sound
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Molly Whuppie. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Molly, one), 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 took | advmod |
| 2 | Molly | Molly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 fall | cc |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fall | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 fall | advmod |
| 8 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | conj |
| 9 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fall | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 waited | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 waited | cc |
| 12 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 13 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 16 sure | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sure | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sure | cop |
| 16 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 waited | ccomp |
| 17 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 one | det |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sleeping | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 sleeping | aux |
| 20 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 sure | ccomp |
| 21 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sleeping | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Molly | care | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not fall | past · do-support | Molly not said here | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wait | past | Molly not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | Molly | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | sleep | past · progressive | every one | sound | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=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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