English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, sentence 54

The giant's wife saw nothing, and began to ask to get down again; but Molly never minded, but hid herself at the back of the door.

Who acts: wife, Molly · What happens: see, begin, ask, get down, not mind, hide · To what, where: nothing, Molly, back

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 (wife, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 giant	det
2	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wife	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 giant	case
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 saw	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 began	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 began	cc
9	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 saw	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 ask	mark
11	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 began	xcomp
12	to	to	PART	_	13 get	mark
13	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 ask	xcomp
14	down	down	ADV	_	13 get	advmod
15	again	again	ADV	_	13 get	advmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 minded	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 minded	cc
18	Molly	Molly	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 minded	nsubj
19	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 minded	advmod
20	minded	mind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 saw	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 hid	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 hid	cc
23	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 minded	conj
24	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 hid	obj
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 back	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 back	det
27	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hid	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 door	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 door	det
30	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 back	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the giant's wife	nothing				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
2	begin	past	the giant's wife not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	the giant's wife not said here					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	get down not said to happen	to-infinitive	the giant's wife not said here			again	down property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
5	not mind	past	Molly					vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	hide	past	Molly not said here	Molly	the back of the door			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent herself=Patient at back=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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