English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, sentence 53
So Molly took the shears and cut a hole in the sack, and took out the needle and thread with her, and jumped down and helped, the giant's wife up into the sack, and sewed up the hole.
Who acts: Molly · What happens: take, cut, take out, jump down, help, sew up · To what, where: shears, hole, sack, needle, wife
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 took | advmod |
| 2 | Molly | Molly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 shears | det |
| 5 | shears | shear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 cut | cc |
| 7 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hole | det |
| 9 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cut | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 sack | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sack | det |
| 12 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hole | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 took | cc |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 took | compound:prt |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 needle | det |
| 18 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 thread | cc |
| 20 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 needle | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 her | case |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 took | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 jumped | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 jumped | cc |
| 25 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 26 | down | down | ADP | _ | 25 jumped | compound:prt |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 helped | cc |
| 28 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 jumped | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 wife | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 giant | det |
| 31 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 wife | nmod:poss |
| 32 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 31 giant | case |
| 33 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 jumped | obl |
| 34 | up | up | ADV | _ | 33 wife | advmod |
| 35 | into | into | ADP | _ | 37 sack | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 sack | det |
| 37 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 jumped | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 sewed | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 sewed | cc |
| 40 | sewed | sew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 41 | up | up | ADP | _ | 40 sewed | compound:prt |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 hole | det |
| 43 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 sewed | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Molly | the shears | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shear=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cut | past | Molly not said here | a hole | the sack | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hole=Product | |||
| 3 | take out | past | Molly not said here | the needle and thread | with Molly | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent needle=Theme | |||
| 4 | jump down | past | Molly not said here | the giant's wife | into the sack result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into sack=Result | |||
| 5 | help | past | Molly not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | sew up | past | Molly not said here | the hole | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Product |
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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