English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts, sentence 46
And at cockcrow they rode home as before, and the moment Kate got home to her room she rushed and touched Anne three times with the wand, and the nasty sheep's head fell off and she was her own pretty self again.
Who acts: nuts, moment, Kate, head · What happens: ride, get, rush, touch, fall off, be · To what, where: cockcrow, room, Anne, own pretty self
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 (nuts, moment, Kate, head), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 rode | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 cockcrow | case |
| 3 | cockcrow | cockcrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rode | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 rode | nsubj |
| 5 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 rode | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 before | advmod |
| 8 | before | before | ADV | _ | 5 rode | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 got | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 got | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 moment | det |
| 12 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 got | nsubj |
| 13 | Kate | Kate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 moment | appos |
| 14 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rode | conj |
| 15 | home | home | ADV | _ | 14 got | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 room | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 room | nmod:poss |
| 18 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 got | obl |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 rushed | nsubj |
| 20 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 room | acl:relcl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 touched | cc |
| 22 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 rushed | conj |
| 23 | Anne | Anne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 touched | obj |
| 24 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 times | nummod |
| 25 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 touched | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 wand | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 wand | det |
| 28 | wand | wand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 touched | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 fell | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 fell | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 sheep | det |
| 32 | nasty | nasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 sheep | amod |
| 33 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 head | nmod:poss |
| 34 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 33 sheep | case |
| 35 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 fell | nsubj |
| 36 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rode | parataxis |
| 37 | off | off | ADP | _ | 36 fell | compound:prt |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 self | cc |
| 39 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 self | nsubj |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 self | cop |
| 41 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 self | nmod:poss |
| 42 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 self | amod |
| 43 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 self | amod |
| 44 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 fell | conj |
| 45 | again | again | ADV | _ | 44 self | advmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | nuts = nut | cockcrow | before, home property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | get | past | the moment | to Kate's room result; home property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to room=Result | ||||
| 3 | rush | past | Kate | Kate's room not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | touch | past | Kate not said here | Anne | time | with the wand | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent anne=Experiencer with wand=Instrument | ||
| 5 | fall off | past | the nasty sheep's head | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | is a | past | Kate | Kate's own pretty self | again | tree rules |
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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