English Fairy Tales, Mr. Fox, sentence 9
And when she came up to the gateway she saw written on it:
Who acts: Lady · What happens: come up, see, write · To what, where: gateway
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mr. Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lady), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 saw | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 came | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 saw | advcl |
| 5 | up | up | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 gateway | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gateway | det |
| 8 | gateway | gateway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 saw | xcomp |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 written | obl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | past | Lady | the gateway | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to gateway=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Lady | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | write | participle | Lady not said here | gateway | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on it=Destination |
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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