English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring, sentence 48
So she went back to her work with a sigh, and set to cleaning a huge big fish that was to be boiled for their dinner.
Who acts: girl · What happens: go back, set, clean, boil, work · To what, where: huge big fish
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 | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 work | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 work | nmod:poss |
| 7 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 sigh | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sigh | det |
| 10 | sigh | sigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 work | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 set | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 set | cc |
| 13 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | conj |
| 14 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 15 cleaning | mark |
| 15 | cleaning | clean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 set | advcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 fish | det |
| 17 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fish | amod |
| 18 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fish | amod |
| 19 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cleaning | obj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 boiled | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 boiled | aux:pass |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 boiled | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 boiled | aux:pass |
| 24 | boiled | boil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 fish | acl:relcl |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 dinner | case |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 27 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 boiled | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | girl | to girl's work with a sigh result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to work=Result | ||||
| 2 | set | infinitive | girl not said here | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | clean | gerund | girl not said here | a huge big fish | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fish=Patient | ||||
| 4 | boil | past · passive | girl not said here | a huge big fish | for arms's dinner | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Patient for dinner=Beneficiary | |||
| 5 | work | girl | with a sigh | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent with=obl |
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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