English Fairy Tales, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold., sentence 11
“I rushed downstairs, just in time to hide myself behind a cask, when you, Mr. Fox, came in dragging the young lady by the arm.
Who acts: Mr. Fox, you · What happens: rush, hide, come, drag · To what, where: Mr. Fox, cask, young lady
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 (Mr. Fox, you), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 rushed | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 rushed | nsubj |
| 3 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | downstairs | downstairs | ADV | _ | 3 rushed | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 time | punct |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 time | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rushed | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 hide | mark |
| 10 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 time | acl |
| 11 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 hide | obj |
| 12 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 14 cask | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 cask | det |
| 14 | cask | cask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hide | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 came | punct |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 came | advmod |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 came | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Fox | punct |
| 19 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Fox | compound |
| 20 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 you | appos |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Fox | punct |
| 22 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rushed | conj |
| 23 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 24 dragging | mark |
| 24 | dragging | drag | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 came | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 lady | det |
| 26 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 lady | amod |
| 27 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 dragging | obj |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 arm | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 arm | det |
| 30 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 dragging | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush in a quote | past | Mr. Fox = fox | time | downstairs property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | hide in a quote | to-infinitive | Mr. Fox = fox not said here | Mr. Fox = fox | a cask | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent myself=Patient behind cask=Location | |||
| 3 | come in a quote | past | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | drag in a quote | gerund | you not said here | the young lady | by the arm | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Theme |
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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