English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, sentence 37

So she set out for the giant's house, and slipped in, and hid again below the bed, and waited till the giant had eaten his supper, and was snoring sound asleep.

Who acts: Molly · What happens: set out, slip in, hide, wait, eat, snore · To what, where: bed, giant, 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), 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 set	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 set	nsubj
3	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 set	compound:prt
5	for	for	ADP	_	9 house	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 giant	det
7	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 house	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 giant	case
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 set	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 slipped	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 slipped	cc
12	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 set	parataxis
13	in	in	ADV	_	12 slipped	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hid	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 hid	cc
16	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 slipped	conj
17	again	again	ADV	_	16 hid	advmod
18	below	below	ADP	_	20 bed	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bed	det
20	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hid	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 waited	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 waited	cc
23	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 set	conj
24	till	till	SCONJ	_	28 eaten	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 giant	det
26	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 eaten	nsubj:pass
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 eaten	aux
28	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 waited	advcl
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 supper	nmod:poss
30	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 eaten	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 snoring	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 snoring	cc
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 snoring	aux
34	snoring	snore	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 waited	advcl
35	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 snoring	obj
36	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 snoring	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set out	past	Molly				for the giant's house	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	slip in	past						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	hide	past			the bed	again		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent below bed=Location
4	wait	past	Molly not said here					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	eat	past · perfect · passive		the giant				tree rules
6	snore	past · progressive	Molly not said here	sound			asleep property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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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