English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, sentence 4
It must have been there a long, long time, but somehow or other she had never noticed it before, and she began a-thinking.
Who acts: beer, daughter · What happens: be, not notice, begin · To what, where: beer, thinking
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 (beer, daughter), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 there | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 there | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 there | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 there | cop |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 time | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 long | punct |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 time | amod |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 there | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 somehow | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 somehow | cc |
| 13 | somehow | somehow | ADV | _ | 19 noticed | advmod |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 other | cc |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 somehow | conj |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 noticed | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 noticed | aux |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 19 noticed | advmod |
| 19 | noticed | notice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 there | advcl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 noticed | obj |
| 21 | before | before | ADV | _ | 19 noticed | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 began | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 began | cc |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 began | nsubj |
| 25 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 noticed | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 thinking | det |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 a | punct |
| 28 | thinking | thinking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 began | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | must · perfect | beer | time | there property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not notice | past · perfect | daughter | beer | before, somehow property | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | begin | past | daughter | a thinking | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thinking=Eventuality |
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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