English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well, sentence 23
So she did the same for them, and then, pulling out her provisions, sat down to eat her dinner.
Who acts: lady · What happens: do, pull out, sit down, eat, provide · To what, where: same, provisions, dinner
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Three Heads of the Well. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 did | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 same | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 did | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 did | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pulling | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 pulling | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 pulling | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pulling | punct |
| 12 | pulling | pull | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 did | advcl |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 pulling | compound:prt |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 provisions | nmod:poss |
| 15 | provisions | provision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 pulling | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sat | punct |
| 17 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 18 | down | down | ADP | _ | 17 sat | compound:prt |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 eat | mark |
| 20 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 sat | advcl |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 22 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 eat | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | lady | the same | for heads = head | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | pull out | gerund | lady not said here | lady's provisions | then | tree rules | |||
| 3 | sit down | past | lady not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | eat | to-infinitive | lady not said here | lady's dinner | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient | ||||
| 5 | provide | lady | nom provision «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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