English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, sentence 20

Then she slipped out of the bed, and took the straw ropes off her own and her sisters' necks, and took the gold chains off the giant's lassies.

Who acts: Molly · What happens: slip out, take · To what, where: bed, straw ropes, own, gold chains, lassies

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), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 slipped	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 slipped	nsubj
3	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	7 bed	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 bed	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bed	det
7	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 slipped	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 took	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 took	cc
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 slipped	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ropes	det
12	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ropes	compound
13	ropes	rope	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 took	obj
14	off	off	ADP	_	16 own	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 own	nmod:poss
16	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 took	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 necks	cc
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 sisters	nmod:poss
19	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 necks	nmod:poss
20	'	's	PART	_	19 sisters	case
21	necks	neck	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 took	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 took	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 took	cc
24	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 slipped	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 chains	det
26	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 chains	compound
27	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 took	obj
28	off	off	ADP	_	32 lassies	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 giant	det
30	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lassies	nmod:poss
31	's	's	PART	_	30 giant	case
32	lassies	lassie	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 took	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 slipped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	slip out	past	Molly	the bed		then	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent bed=Patient
2	take	past	Molly not said here	the straw ropes	Molly's own		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent rope=Theme off own=Initial_Location
3	take	past	Molly not said here	the gold chains	the giant's lassies		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent chain=Theme off lassie=Initial_Location

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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