English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 118

Well, she backed a step or two, and she looked at it, and then she laughed out, and says she, pointing her finger at it:

Who acts: woman · What happens: back, look, laugh out, say, point · To what, where: step, woman, finger · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Tom Tit Tot. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 backed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 backed	nsubj
4	backed	back	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 step	det
6	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 backed	obj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 two	cc
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 step	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 looked	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 looked	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 looked	nsubj
12	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 backed	conj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 looked	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 laughed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 laughed	cc
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 laughed	advmod
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 laughed	nsubj
19	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 backed	conj
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 laughed	compound:prt
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 says	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 says	cc
23	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 backed	conj
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 says	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 pointing	punct
26	pointing	point	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 says	advcl
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 finger	nmod:poss
28	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 pointing	obj
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 pointing	obl
31	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 backed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	back	past	woman	a step			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Agent
2	look	past	woman			at step	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
3	laugh out	past	woman		then		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	present	woman not said here	woman			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic
5	point	gerund	woman not said here	woman's finger		at step	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Patient

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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