English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts, sentence 19
Her own daughter, Kate, however, took a fine linen cloth and wrapped it round her sister's head and took her by the hand and they both went out to seek their fortune.
Who acts: own daughter, sisters · What happens: take, wrap, go out, seek · To what, where: fine linen cloth, cloth, queen, fortune
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Kate Crackernuts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (own daughter, sisters), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 2 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 daughter | amod |
| 3 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Kate | punct |
| 5 | Kate | Kate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 daughter | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 daughter | punct |
| 7 | however | however | ADV | _ | 9 took | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 however | punct |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 cloth | det |
| 11 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cloth | amod |
| 12 | linen | linen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cloth | compound |
| 13 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 wrapped | cc |
| 15 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 took | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 wrapped | obj |
| 17 | round | round | ADP | _ | 21 head | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 sister | nmod:poss |
| 19 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 head | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 sister | case |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wrapped | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 took | cc |
| 23 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 took | conj |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 took | obj |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 hand | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 hand | det |
| 27 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 took | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 went | cc |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 went | nsubj |
| 30 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 went | advmod |
| 31 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 took | conj |
| 32 | out | out | ADV | _ | 31 went | advmod |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 seek | mark |
| 34 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 went | xcomp |
| 35 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 36 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 seek | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | queen's own daughter | a fine linen cloth | however property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme | |||
| 2 | wrap | past | queen's own daughter not said here | cloth | round queen's sister's head | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | take | past | queen's own daughter not said here | queen | by the hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | |||
| 4 | go out | past | sisters = sister | out property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | seek | to-infinitive | sisters = sister not said here | sisters's fortune | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=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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