English Fairy Tales, Fairy Ointment, sentence 19
Sometimes they would pull the sick lady's ears with their long and hairy paws.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: pull · To what, where: ears
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 (brothers), 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 pull | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pull | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 pull | aux |
| 4 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lady | det |
| 6 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lady | amod |
| 7 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ears | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 lady | case |
| 9 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pull | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 paws | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 paws | nmod:poss |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 paws | amod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 hairy | cc |
| 14 | hairy | hairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 long | conj |
| 15 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pull | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pull | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | would | brothers = brother | the sick lady's ears | with brothers's long paws; sometimes property | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=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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