English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 39
Well, she was that frightened, she'd always been such a gatless girl, that she didn't so much as know how to spin, and what was she to do to-morrow with no one to come nigh her to help her?
Who acts: Darter · What happens: frighten, be, do, know, spin, come · To what, where: Darter, gatless girl, much · 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 (Darter), 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 | _ | 6 frightened | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 frightened | aux:pass |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 frightened | mark |
| 6 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 girl | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 girl | nsubj |
| 9 | 'd | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 girl | aux |
| 10 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 15 girl | advmod |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 girl | cop |
| 12 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 girl | det:predet |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 girl | det |
| 14 | gatless | gatless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 girl | amod |
| 15 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 frightened | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 did | punct |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 did | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 did | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 frightened | conj |
| 20 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 much | advmod |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 much | advmod |
| 22 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 did | obj |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 know | mark |
| 24 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 much | acl |
| 25 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 spin | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 spin | mark |
| 27 | spin | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 know | ccomp |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 do | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 do | cc |
| 30 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 34 do | obj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 do | cop |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 do | nsubj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 do | mark |
| 34 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 frightened | parataxis |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 morrow | case |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 to | punct |
| 37 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 do | obl |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 one | case |
| 39 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 40 one | det |
| 40 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 do | obl |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 come | mark |
| 42 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 one | acl |
| 43 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 42 come | advmod |
| 44 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 come | obj |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 help | mark |
| 46 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 come | advcl |
| 47 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 help | obj |
| 48 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | past · passive | Darter | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | past · perfect | Darter | such gatless girl | always property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | do | past | Darter | much | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | know | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 5 | spin | to-infinitive | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | is | past | Darter | to morrow; with no one; do property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | come | to-infinitive | Darter not said here | Darter | nigh property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location she=Theme | |||
| 8 | help | to-infinitive | Darter not said here | Darter | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary |
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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