English Fairy Tales, Mr. Miacca, sentence 32
So he went into the next room to look out for Mrs. Miacca, and while he was there, Tommy crept out from under the sofa and ran out of the door.
Who acts: Mr., Tommy · What happens: go, look out, be, creep out, run · To what, where: next room, sofa, door
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mr. Miacca. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mr., Tommy), 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 | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 room | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 room | det |
| 6 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 room | amod |
| 7 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 look | mark |
| 9 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | advcl |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 look | compound:prt |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 Mrs. | case |
| 12 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 look | obl |
| 13 | Miacca | Miacca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Mrs. | flat |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 crept | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 crept | cc |
| 16 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 19 there | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 there | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 there | cop |
| 19 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 crept | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 there | punct |
| 21 | Tommy | Tommy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 crept | nsubj |
| 22 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 23 | out | out | ADV | _ | 22 crept | advmod |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 sofa | case |
| 25 | under | under | ADP | _ | 27 sofa | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 sofa | det |
| 27 | sofa | sofa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 crept | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 ran | cc |
| 29 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 33 door | case |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 door | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 door | det |
| 33 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 ran | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Mr. | the next room | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | look out | to-infinitive | Mr. not said here | for Mrs. | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for mrs.=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Mr. | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | creep out | past | Tommy | the sofa | out property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from sofa=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | run | past | Mr. not said here | the door | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out door=Trajectory |
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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