English Fairy Tales, Earl Mar's Daughter, sentence 1
One fine summer's day Earl Mar's daughter went into the castle garden, dancing and tripping along.
Who acts: daughter · What happens: go, dance, trip · To what, where: castle garden
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Earl Mar's Daughter. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 day | nummod |
| 2 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 day | amod |
| 3 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 day | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 summer | case |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | Earl | Earl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 7 | Mar | March | PROPN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 6 Earl | flat |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Earl | case |
| 9 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 garden | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 garden | det |
| 13 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 garden | compound |
| 14 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 dancing | punct |
| 16 | dancing | dance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 went | advcl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 tripping | cc |
| 18 | tripping | trip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 dancing | conj |
| 19 | along | along | ADV | _ | 18 tripping | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Earl's daughter | the castle garden | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into garden=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | dance | gerund | Earl's daughter not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | trip | gerund | Earl's daughter not said here | along property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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