English Fairy Tales, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold., sentence 5
So Lady Mary thought it was high time to get out of that horrid place, and she closed the door, went through the gallery, and was just going down the stairs, and out of the hall, when who should she see through the window, but Mr. Fox dragging a beautiful young lady along from the gateway to the door.
Who acts: Lady, BLOOD, Mary, hall, Mr. Fox · What happens: think, be, get out, close, go, go down · To what, where: high time, horrid place, door, gallery, stairs, Mr. Fox · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lady, BLOOD, Mary, hall), 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 | _ | 4 thought | advmod |
| 2 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | Mary | Mary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Lady | flat |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 time | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 time | cop |
| 7 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 time | amod |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 get | mark |
| 10 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 time | acl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 place | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 place | case |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 place | det |
| 14 | horrid | horrid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 place | amod |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 get | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 closed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 closed | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 closed | nsubj |
| 19 | closed | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 door | det |
| 21 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 closed | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 went | punct |
| 23 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | conj |
| 24 | through | through | ADP | _ | 26 gallery | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 gallery | det |
| 26 | gallery | gallery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 went | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 going | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 going | cc |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 going | aux |
| 30 | just | just | ADV | _ | 31 going | advmod |
| 31 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 went | advcl |
| 32 | down | down | ADP | _ | 34 stairs | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 stairs | det |
| 34 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 going | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 hall | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 hall | cc |
| 37 | out | out | ADP | _ | 40 hall | case |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 hall | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 hall | det |
| 40 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 see | punct |
| 42 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 46 see | mark |
| 43 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 46 see | nsubj |
| 44 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 see | aux |
| 45 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 see | nsubj |
| 46 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 hall | parataxis |
| 47 | through | through | ADP | _ | 49 window | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 window | det |
| 49 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 see | obl |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 Fox | punct |
| 51 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 53 Fox | cc |
| 52 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 53 Fox | compound |
| 53 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 see | obl |
| 54 | dragging | drag | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 53 Fox | acl |
| 55 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 58 lady | det |
| 56 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 58 lady | amod |
| 57 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 58 lady | amod |
| 58 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 dragging | obj |
| 59 | along | along | ADV | _ | 54 dragging | advmod |
| 60 | from | from | ADP | _ | 62 gateway | case |
| 61 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 62 gateway | det |
| 62 | gateway | gateway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 dragging | obl |
| 63 | to | to | ADP | _ | 65 door | case |
| 64 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 65 door | det |
| 65 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 dragging | obl |
| 66 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Lady | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | BLOOD | high time | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get out | to-infinitive | Lady not said here | that horrid place | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | close | past | Mary | the door | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient | ||||
| 5 | go | past | Lady not said here | the gallery | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through gallery=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | go down | past · progressive | Lady not said here | the stairs | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient stair=Extent | ||||
| 7 | see | should | the hall | Mr. Fox | the window | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 8 | drag | gerund | Mr. Fox not said here | a beautiful young lady | the gateway | to the door; along property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent lady=Theme from gateway=Initial_Location to door=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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