English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts, sentence 56
So Kate gave him a third bite, and he rose quite well, dressed himself, and sat down by the fire, and when the folk came in next morning they found Kate and the young prince cracking nuts together.
Who acts: Kate, prince, folk, bites, young prince · What happens: give, rise, dress, sit down, come in, find · To what, where: third bite, prince, 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 (Kate, prince, folk, bites), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 gave | advmod |
| 2 | Kate | Kate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bite | det |
| 6 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 bite | amod |
| 7 | bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 rose | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 rose | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 rose | nsubj |
| 11 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 12 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 13 well | advmod |
| 13 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 rose | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dressed | punct |
| 15 | dressed | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 rose | conj |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 dressed | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sat | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sat | cc |
| 19 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 20 | down | down | ADP | _ | 19 sat | compound:prt |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 fire | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fire | det |
| 23 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sat | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 found | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 found | cc |
| 26 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 29 came | mark |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 folk | det |
| 28 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 came | nsubj |
| 29 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 found | advcl |
| 30 | in | in | ADV | _ | 29 came | advmod |
| 31 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 morning | amod |
| 32 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 came | obl:unmarked |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 found | nsubj |
| 34 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | parataxis |
| 35 | Kate | Kate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 found | obj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 cracking | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 prince | det |
| 38 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 prince | amod |
| 39 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 cracking | nsubj |
| 40 | cracking | crack | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 found | conj |
| 41 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 cracking | obj |
| 42 | together | together | ADV | _ | 40 cracking | advmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Kate | a third bite | prince | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bite=Theme | |||
| 2 | rise | past | prince | well property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | dress | past | prince not said here | prince | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | ||||
| 4 | sit down | past | Kate not said here | by the fire | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location | ||||
| 5 | come in | past | the folk | morning | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | find | past | bites = bite | Kate | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kate=Topic | ||||
| 7 | crack | gerund | the young prince | nuts | together property | 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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