English Fairy Tales, The Rose-tree, sentence 11
She came to the stile, set down the candles, and proceeded to climb over.
Who acts: dog, stile · What happens: come, set down, proceed, climb over · To what, where: stile, candles
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Rose-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, stile), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 stile | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 stile | det |
| 5 | stile | stile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 set | punct |
| 7 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 stile | acl |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 set | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 candles | det |
| 10 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 set | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 proceeded | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 proceeded | cc |
| 13 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 climb | mark |
| 15 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 proceeded | xcomp |
| 16 | over | over | ADV | _ | 15 climb | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | dog | the stile | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stile=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | set down | participle | the stile not said here | the candles | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient candle=Result | ||||
| 3 | proceed | past | dog not said here | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | climb over | to-infinitive | dog not said here | over property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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