English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 52
Dick went back, and was lucky enough to get into the house, and set about his work, before the old cook came downstairs.
Who acts: Dick, old cook · What happens: go back, be, get, set, come, work · To what, where: house
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dick, old cook), 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 | Dick | Dick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lucky | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 lucky | cc |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lucky | cop |
| 7 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 went | conj |
| 8 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 7 lucky | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 get | mark |
| 10 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 lucky | advcl |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 house | det |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 get | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 set | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 set | cc |
| 16 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 19 work | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 work | nmod:poss |
| 19 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 set | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 came | punct |
| 21 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 25 came | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 cook | det |
| 23 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 cook | amod |
| 24 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 came | nsubj |
| 25 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 set | conj |
| 26 | downstairs | downstairs | ADV | _ | 25 came | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | Dick | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Dick not said here | enough, lucky property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | Dick not said here | the house | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into house=Destination | ||||
| 4 | set | past | about Dick's work | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent about work=Destination | |||||
| 5 | come | past | the old cook | downstairs property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | work | Dick | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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