English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts, sentence 25
Now Katie was a very brave girl, so she offered to sit up with him.
Who acts: Katie · What happens: be, offer, sit up · To what, where: brave girl
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 (Katie), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Katie | advmod |
| 2 | Katie | Katie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 girl | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 girl | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 girl | det |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 brave | advmod |
| 6 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 girl | amod |
| 7 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 offered | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 offered | advmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 offered | nsubj |
| 11 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 girl | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 sit | mark |
| 13 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 offered | xcomp |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 sit | compound:prt |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sit | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 girl | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Katie | a brave girl | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | offer | past | Katie | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | sit up not said to happen | to-infinitive | Katie not said here | with thing | vn assuming_position-50 «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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