English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, sentence 30

So she went back, and managed to slip into the giant's house, and crept in below the bed.

Who acts: Molly · What happens: go back, manage, slip, creep in · To what, where: house, bed

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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 managed	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 managed	cc
7	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 slip	mark
9	slip	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 managed	xcomp
10	into	into	ADP	_	14 house	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 giant	det
12	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 house	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 giant	case
14	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 slip	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 crept	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 crept	cc
17	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
18	in	in	ADV	_	17 crept	advmod
19	below	below	ADP	_	21 bed	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bed	det
21	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 crept	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	go back	past	Molly		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	manage	past	Molly not said here		vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	slip	to-infinitive	Molly not said here	the giant's house	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	creep in	past	Molly not said here	the bed	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme below bed=Trajectory

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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