English Fairy Tales, Fairy Ointment, sentence 3
Dame Goody didn't like the look of the old fellow, but business is business; so she popped on her things, and went down to him.
Who acts: Dame · What happens: not like, be, pop, go down · To what, where: look, business business, things, fellow
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), 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 like | nsubj |
| 2 | Goody | Goody | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Dame | flat |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 like | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 like | advmod |
| 5 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 look | det |
| 7 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 like | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 fellow | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fellow | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fellow | amod |
| 11 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 look | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 business | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 business | cc |
| 14 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 business | compound |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 business | cop |
| 16 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fellow | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 popped | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 popped | advmod |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 popped | nsubj |
| 20 | popped | pop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 like | parataxis |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 things | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 things | nmod:poss |
| 23 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 popped | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 went | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 went | cc |
| 26 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 popped | conj |
| 27 | down | down | ADV | _ | 26 went | advmod |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 him | case |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 went | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not like | past · do-support | Dame | the look of the old fellow but business business | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot look=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Dame not said here | business business | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pop | past | Dame | Dame's things | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on thing=Location | ||||
| 4 | go down | past | Dame not said here | fellow | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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