English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, sentence 26
They all got out safe, and they ran and ran, and never stopped until morning, when they saw a grand house before them.
Who acts: sisters · What happens: get out, run, not stop, see · To what, where: grand house
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 (sisters), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 got | advmod |
| 5 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 got | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ran | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ran | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 ran | nsubj |
| 9 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | parataxis |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ran | cc |
| 11 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ran | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stopped | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 stopped | cc |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 stopped | advmod |
| 15 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | parataxis |
| 16 | until | until | ADP | _ | 17 morning | case |
| 17 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stopped | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 saw | punct |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 saw | advmod |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 saw | nsubj |
| 21 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 stopped | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 house | det |
| 23 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 house | amod |
| 24 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 saw | obj |
| 25 | before | before | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 saw | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get out | past | sisters = sister | out, safe property | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | run | past | sisters = sister | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | run | past | sisters = sister not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not stop | past | morning | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | see | past | sisters = sister | a grand house | before lassies = lassie | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus |
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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