English Fairy Tales, “nimmy Nimmy Not, Your Name's Tom Tit Tot!”, sentence 1

Well, when that heard her, that gave an awful shriek and away that flew into the dark, and she never saw it any more.

Who acts: that, she · What happens: hear, give, fly, not see · To what, where: her, awful shriek, dark, shriek

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, “nimmy Nimmy Not, Your Name's 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 (that, she), 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	_	5 heard	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 heard	advmod
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 heard	nsubj
5	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 heard	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gave	punct
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 gave	nsubj
9	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	conj
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 shriek	det
11	awful	awful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 shriek	amod
12	shriek	shriek	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gave	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 away	cc
14	away	away	ADV	_	12 shriek	conj
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 flew	nsubj
16	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 gave	parataxis
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 dark	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 dark	det
19	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 flew	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 saw	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 saw	cc
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 saw	nsubj
23	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	24 saw	advmod
24	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 saw	obj
26	any	any	ADV	_	27 more	advmod
27	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 saw	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	that	her = she		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
2	give	past	that	a awful shriek		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shriek=Theme
3	fly	past	that		into the dark result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into dark=Result
4	not see	past	she	shriek		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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