English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts, sentence 39
When the morning sun rose they came in and found Kate sitting down by the fire and cracking her nuts.
Who acts: morning sun, fairies, Kate · What happens: rise, come in, find, sit down, crack · To what, where: Kate, nuts
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 (morning sun, fairies, Kate), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 rose | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sun | det |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sun | compound |
| 4 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rose | nsubj |
| 5 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | advcl |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADV | _ | 7 came | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 found | cc |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 11 | Kate | Kate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 found | obj |
| 12 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 found | xcomp |
| 13 | down | down | ADV | _ | 12 sitting | advmod |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 fire | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fire | det |
| 16 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sitting | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 cracking | cc |
| 18 | cracking | crack | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 sitting | conj |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 nuts | nmod:poss |
| 20 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 cracking | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the morning sun | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | come in | past | fairies = fairy | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | find | past | fairies = fairy not said here | Kate | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent kate=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sit down | gerund | Kate not said here | by the fire; down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location | ||||
| 5 | crack | gerund | Kate not said here | Kate's nuts | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nut=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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