English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick, sentence 50
She obeyed, and the tears ran down her cheeks, and filled her apron with diamonds.
Who acts: cudgel, tears · What happens: obey, run down, fill · To what, where: cheeks, apron
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cudgel, tears), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 obeyed | nsubj |
| 2 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ran | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ran | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tears | det |
| 6 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ran | nsubj |
| 7 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 obeyed | conj |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 ran | compound:prt |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 cheeks | nmod:poss |
| 10 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ran | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 filled | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 filled | cc |
| 13 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 obeyed | conj |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 apron | nmod:poss |
| 15 | apron | apron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 filled | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 diamonds | case |
| 17 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 filled | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 obeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obey | past | cudgel | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | run down | past | the tears | cudgel's cheeks | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location cheek=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fill | past | cudgel not said here | cudgel's apron | with diamonds | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent apron=Patient with diamond=Instrument |
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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