English Fairy Tales, Fairy Ointment, sentence 20
In fact, they were up to all kinds of mischief; and Dame Goody knew that she had got into a house of pixies.
Who acts: brothers, Dame · What happens: be up, know, get · To what, where: fact, house · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Dame), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 fact | case |
| 2 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 were | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 fact | punct |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 were | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 were | compound:prt |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 kinds | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 kinds | det |
| 9 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 were | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 mischief | case |
| 11 | mischief | mischief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kinds | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 knew | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Dame | cc |
| 14 | Dame | Dame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 knew | nsubj |
| 15 | Goody | Goody | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Dame | flat |
| 16 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 were | parataxis |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 got | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 got | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 got | aux |
| 20 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 knew | ccomp |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 house | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 house | det |
| 23 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 got | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 pixies | case |
| 25 | pixies | pixie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 house | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be up | past | brothers = brother | fact | to all kinds of mischief | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fact=Location | |||
| 2 | know | past | Dame | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | get | past · perfect | Dame | a house of pixies | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into house=Destination |
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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