English Fairy Tales, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold., sentence 8
“I then dreamed that I rushed down the gallery, and just as I was going down the stairs, I saw you, Mr. Fox, coming up to the hall door, dragging after you a poor young lady, rich and beautiful.”
Who acts: Mr. Fox · What happens: dream, rush down, go down, see, come up, drag · To what, where: gallery, stairs, you, hall door · 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 (Mr. Fox), 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 | _ | 4 dreamed | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 dreamed | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 dreamed | advmod |
| 4 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 rushed | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 rushed | nsubj |
| 7 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dreamed | ccomp |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 rushed | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 gallery | det |
| 10 | gallery | gallery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rushed | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 going | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 going | cc |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 17 going | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 going | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 going | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 going | aux |
| 17 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 dreamed | advcl |
| 18 | down | down | ADP | _ | 20 stairs | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 stairs | det |
| 20 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 going | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 saw | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 saw | nsubj |
| 23 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dreamed | conj |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 saw | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Fox | punct |
| 26 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Fox | compound |
| 27 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 saw | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 coming | punct |
| 29 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 42 lady | csubj |
| 30 | up | up | ADV | _ | 29 coming | advmod |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 door | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 door | det |
| 33 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 door | compound |
| 34 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 coming | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 dragging | punct |
| 36 | dragging | drag | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 42 lady | csubj |
| 37 | after | after | ADP | _ | 38 you | case |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 dragging | obl |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 lady | det |
| 40 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 lady | amod |
| 41 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 lady | amod |
| 42 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 saw | conj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 rich | punct |
| 44 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 lady | amod |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 beautiful | cc |
| 46 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 rich | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dreamed | punct |
| 48 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 dreamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dream in a quote | past | Mr. Fox = fox | then | vn cognize-85 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | rush down in a quote | past | Mr. Fox = fox | the gallery | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme gallery=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | go down in a quote | past · progressive | Mr. Fox = fox | the stairs | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient stair=Extent | ||||
| 4 | see in a quote | past | Mr. Fox = fox | you | Mr. Fox obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | come up in a quote | gerund | the hall door | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location | |||||
| 6 | drag in a quote | gerund | after you | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
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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