English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts, sentence 43
This time she did not watch the prince, for she knew he would dance and dance, and dance.
Who acts: Kate, prince · What happens: not watch, know, dance · To what, where: prince, dance · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Kate, prince), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 watch | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 watch | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 watch | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 watch | advmod |
| 6 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prince | det |
| 8 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 watch | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 knew | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 knew | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 knew | nsubj |
| 12 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 watch | parataxis |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 dance | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 dance | aux |
| 15 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 knew | ccomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 dance | cc |
| 17 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 dance | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 dance | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 dance | cc |
| 20 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 knew | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 watch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not watch | past · do-support | Kate | the prince | time | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme | |||
| 2 | know | past | Kate | dance | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | dance | would | prince | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | dance | infinitive | prince not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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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