English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, sentence 27
It turned out to be a king's house: so Molly went in, and told her story to the king.
Who acts: house, Molly · What happens: turn out, be, go in, tell · To what, where: story, king · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (house, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 turned | compound:prt |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 be | mark |
| 5 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 turned | xcomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 house | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 king | case |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 be | nsubj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 12 | Molly | Molly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | parataxis |
| 14 | in | in | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 told | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 told | cc |
| 17 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 went | conj |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 story | nmod:poss |
| 19 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 told | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 king | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 king | det |
| 22 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 told | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn out | past | house | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | be | to-infinitive | a king's house | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go in | past | Molly | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | Molly not said here | Molly's story | the king | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Topic to king=Recipient |
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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