English Fairy Tales, Fairy Ointment, sentence 1
Dame Goody was a nurse that looked after sick people, and minded babies.
Who acts: Dame, nurse · What happens: be, look · To what, where: nurse
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fairy Ointment. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dame, nurse), 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 | Dame | Dame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 nurse | nsubj |
| 2 | Goody | Goody | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Dame | flat |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 nurse | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 nurse | det |
| 5 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 looked | nsubj |
| 7 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 nurse | acl:relcl |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 people | case |
| 9 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 people | amod |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 looked | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 babies | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 babies | cc |
| 13 | minded | minded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 babies | amod |
| 14 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 nurse | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 nurse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Dame | a nurse and minded babies | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | past | a nurse and minded babies | after sick people | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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