English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 6
And she set to work and ate 'em all, first and last.
Who acts: girl · What happens: set, work, eat · To what, where: 'em
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 (girl), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 set | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 set | nsubj |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 work | mark |
| 5 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 set | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ate | cc |
| 7 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | conj |
| 8 | 'em | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 ate | obj |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 'em | det |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 first | punct |
| 11 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 ate | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 last | cc |
| 13 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 first | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | girl | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | work | to-infinitive | girl not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | eat | past | girl not said here | 'em = they | first property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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