English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring, sentence 28
So soon after the girl set out for Scarborough, and slept for the night at a little inn.
Who acts: girl · What happens: set out, sleep · To what, where: little inn
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Fish and the Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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 | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 set | advmod |
| 3 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 6 set | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 girl | det |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 set | nsubj |
| 6 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 set | compound:prt |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 Scarborough | case |
| 9 | Scarborough | Scarborough | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 set | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 slept | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 slept | cc |
| 12 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 set | conj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 night | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 night | det |
| 15 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 slept | obl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 inn | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 inn | det |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 inn | amod |
| 19 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 slept | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past | the girl | for Scarborough; soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sleep | past | the girl not said here | a little inn | night | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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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