English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, sentence 38
She slipped out, and slipped her hand below the pillow, and got out the purse; but just as she was going out the giant wakened, and ran after her; and she ran, and he ran, till they came to the “Bridge of one hair,” and she got over, but he couldn't, and he said, “Woe worth ye, Molly Whuppie! never you come again.”
Who acts: Molly, purse, sisters, you · What happens: slip out, slip, get out, go out, waken, run · To what, where: hand, pillow, purse, giant, Bridge, Woe · 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 (Molly, purse, sisters, you), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 slipped | nsubj |
| 2 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 slipped | compound:prt |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 slipped | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 slipped | cc |
| 6 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 slipped | conj |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hand | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 slipped | obj |
| 9 | below | below | ADP | _ | 11 pillow | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pillow | det |
| 11 | pillow | pillow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 slipped | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 got | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 got | cc |
| 14 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 slipped | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 got | compound:prt |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 purse | det |
| 17 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 got | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 going | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 going | cc |
| 20 | just | just | ADV | _ | 24 going | advmod |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 going | mark |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 going | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 going | aux |
| 24 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 slipped | conj |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 going | compound:prt |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 giant | det |
| 27 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 going | obj |
| 28 | wakened | waken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 going | xcomp |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 ran | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 ran | cc |
| 31 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 slipped | conj |
| 32 | after | after | ADP | _ | 33 her | case |
| 33 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 ran | obl |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 ran | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 ran | cc |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 ran | nsubj |
| 37 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 slipped | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 ran | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 ran | cc |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 ran | nsubj |
| 41 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 slipped | conj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 came | punct |
| 43 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 45 came | mark |
| 44 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 came | nsubj |
| 45 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 ran | parataxis |
| 46 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 Bridge | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 Bridge | det |
| 48 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 49 Bridge | punct |
| 49 | Bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 came | obl |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 hair | case |
| 51 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 52 hair | nummod |
| 52 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 Bridge | nmod |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 came | punct |
| 54 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 ran | punct |
| 55 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 57 got | cc |
| 56 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 57 got | nsubj |
| 57 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 slipped | conj |
| 58 | over | over | ADV | _ | 57 got | advmod |
| 59 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 62 could | punct |
| 60 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 62 could | cc |
| 61 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 62 could | nsubj |
| 62 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 2 slipped | conj |
| 63 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 62 could | advmod |
| 64 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 67 said | punct |
| 65 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 67 said | cc |
| 66 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 67 said | nsubj |
| 67 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 slipped | conj |
| 68 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 70 Woe | punct |
| 69 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 70 Woe | punct |
| 70 | Woe | woe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 67 said | obj |
| 71 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 70 Woe | amod |
| 72 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 71 worth | obj |
| 73 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 74 Molly | punct |
| 74 | Molly | Molly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 70 Woe | appos |
| 75 | Whuppie | Whuppie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 74 Molly | flat |
| 76 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 70 Woe | punct |
| 77 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 79 come | advmod |
| 78 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 79 come | nsubj |
| 79 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 67 said | advcl |
| 80 | again | again | ADV | _ | 79 come | advmod |
| 81 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 slipped | punct |
| 82 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 slipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slip out | past | Molly | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | slip | past | Molly not said here | Molly's hand | the pillow | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | |||
| 3 | get out | past | Molly not said here | the purse | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go out | past · progressive | Molly | the giant | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | waken | participle | Molly not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | run | past | Molly not said here | after Molly | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | run | past | Molly | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | run | past | purse | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | come | past | sisters = sister | the Bridge of one hair | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bridge=Initial_Location | ||||
| 10 | get over | past | Molly | over property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 11 | say speech: express | past | purse | Woe | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent woe=Topic | ||||
| 12 | not come in a quote | present | you | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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