English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, sentence 34

And the weight of the cow tied to her wrist pulled the woman up the chimney, and she stuck fast half-way and was smothered in the soot.

Who acts: weight, cow · What happens: tie, pull, stick, smother · To what, where: cow, woman, fast half way

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Three Sillies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (weight, cow), 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	_	11 pulled	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 weight	det
3	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pulled	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 cow	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cow	det
6	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 weight	nmod
7	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 cow	acl
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 wrist	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wrist	nmod:poss
10	wrist	wrist	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tied	obl
11	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 woman	det
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pulled	obj
14	up	up	ADP	_	16 chimney	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 chimney	det
16	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pulled	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 stuck	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 stuck	cc
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 stuck	nsubj
20	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 pulled	parataxis
21	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 way	amod
22	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	24 way	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 half	punct
24	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stuck	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 smothered	cc
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 smothered	aux:pass
27	smothered	smother	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 stuck	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 soot	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 soot	det
30	soot	soot	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 smothered	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 pulled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tie	participle		the cow not said here	to cow's wrist	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to wrist=Co-Patient
2	pull	past	the weight of the cow	the woman	up the chimney	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent woman=Result
3	stick	past	cow	fast half way		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent way=Theme
4	smother	past · passive	cow not said here		in the soot	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: in soot=Theme

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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