English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well, sentence 38
With these she went the same road as her sister; and coming near the cave, the old man said: “Young woman, whither so fast?”
Who acts: these, old man · What happens: go, come, say · To what, where: same road, cave · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (these, old man), 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 | With | with | SCONJ | _ | 4 went | mark |
| 2 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 went | nsubj |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 said | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 road | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 road | amod |
| 7 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obj |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 sister | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 sister | nmod:poss |
| 10 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 coming | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 coming | cc |
| 13 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 went | advcl |
| 14 | near | near | ADP | _ | 16 cave | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cave | det |
| 16 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 coming | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 19 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 man | amod |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 said | nsubj |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 woman | punct |
| 23 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 woman | punct |
| 24 | Young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 woman | amod |
| 25 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 said | ccomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 fast | punct |
| 27 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 fast | advmod |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 fast | advmod |
| 29 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 woman | conj |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 29 fast | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 woman | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | these | the same road | as princess's sister | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location road=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | gerund | these not said here | the cave | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near cave=Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the old man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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