English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, sentence 43
So back she goes to the giant's house, and hides herself below the bed.
Who acts: Molly · What happens: go, hide · To what, where: house, Molly, 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 | _ | 2 back | advmod |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 goes | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 goes | nsubj |
| 4 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | 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 | 4 goes | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hides | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 hides | cc |
| 12 | hides | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 goes | conj |
| 13 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 hides | obj |
| 14 | below | below | ADP | _ | 16 bed | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bed | det |
| 16 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hides | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | Molly | the giant's house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | hide | present | Molly not said here | Molly | the bed | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent herself=Patient below bed=Location |
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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