English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts, sentence 50
Kate rolled all the nuts she had to the fairy baby till the birdie was dropped, and Kate put it in her apron.
Who acts: Kate · What happens: roll, have, drop, put · To what, where: nuts, birdie, apron
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), 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 | Kate | Kate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 rolled | nsubj |
| 2 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 nuts | det:predet |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 nuts | det |
| 5 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 rolled | obj |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rolled | parataxis |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 baby | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 baby | det |
| 10 | fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 baby | amod |
| 11 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obl |
| 12 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 16 dropped | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 birdie | det |
| 14 | birdie | birdie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dropped | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 dropped | aux:pass |
| 16 | dropped | drop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 had | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 put | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 put | cc |
| 19 | Kate | Kate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 put | nsubj |
| 20 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rolled | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 put | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 apron | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 apron | nmod:poss |
| 24 | apron | apron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 put | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rolled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll | past | Kate | all nuts | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Kate | to the fairy baby | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | drop | past · passive | the birdie | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | put | past | Kate | birdie | Kate's apron | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in apron=Destination |
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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