English Fairy Tales, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold., sentence 6
Lady Mary rushed downstairs, and hid herself behind a cask, just in time, as Mr. Fox came in with the poor young lady who seemed to have fainted.
Who acts: Lady Mary, Mr. Fox, poor young lady · What happens: rush, hide, come in, seem, faint · To what, where: Mary, cask
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 Mary, Mr. Fox, poor young 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 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Mary | compound |
| 2 | Mary | Mary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 rushed | nsubj |
| 3 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | downstairs | downstairs | ADV | _ | 3 rushed | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hid | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 hid | cc |
| 7 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rushed | parataxis |
| 8 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 hid | obj |
| 9 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 11 cask | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 cask | det |
| 11 | cask | cask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hid | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 time | punct |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 time | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cask | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 came | punct |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 came | mark |
| 18 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Fox | compound |
| 19 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | nsubj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hid | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADV | _ | 20 came | advmod |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 lady | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 lady | det |
| 24 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 lady | amod |
| 25 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 lady | amod |
| 26 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | obl |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 seemed | nsubj |
| 28 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 lady | acl:relcl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 fainted | mark |
| 30 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 fainted | aux |
| 31 | fainted | faint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 seemed | xcomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | past | Lady Mary | downstairs property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hide | past | Mary | a cask and time | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent herself=Patient behind cask=Location | ||||
| 3 | come in | past | Mr. Fox | with the poor young lady | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | seem | past | the poor young lady | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | faint | to-infinitive · perfect | the poor young lady not said here | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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