English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts, sentence 6
So Anne set out, but as she passed through the kitchen she saw a crust, and she took and munched it as she went along.
Who acts: Anne · What happens: set out, pass, see, take, munch, go along · To what, where: kitchen, crust
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 (Anne), 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 set | advmod |
| 2 | Anne | Anne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 set | nsubj |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 set | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 passed | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 passed | cc |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 passed | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 passed | nsubj |
| 9 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | parataxis |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 kitchen | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 kitchen | det |
| 12 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 passed | obl |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 kitchen | acl:relcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 crust | det |
| 16 | crust | crust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 took | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 took | cc |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 took | nsubj |
| 20 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 passed | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 munched | cc |
| 22 | munched | munch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 took | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 munched | obj |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 went | mark |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 went | nsubj |
| 26 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 munched | advcl |
| 27 | along | along | ADV | _ | 26 went | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past | Anne | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | pass | past | Anne | the kitchen | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through kitchen=Location | ||||
| 3 | see | past | Anne | a crust | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crust=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | take | past | Anne | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | munch | past | Anne not said here | crust | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 6 | go along | past | Anne | along property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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