English Fairy Tales, The Rose-tree, sentence 14
Then she came to her stepmother crying, for she had spent all the money and had lost three bunches of candles.
Who acts: dog, stepmother · What happens: come, cry, spend, lose · To what, where: money, three bunches
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, stepmother), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 stepmother | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 stepmother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | crying | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 stepmother | acl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 spent | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 spent | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 spent | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 spent | aux |
| 12 | spent | spend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 came | parataxis |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 money | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 money | det |
| 15 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 spent | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 lost | cc |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 lost | aux |
| 18 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 spent | conj |
| 19 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 bunches | nummod |
| 20 | bunches | bunch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 lost | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 candles | case |
| 22 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 bunches | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | dog | then | to dog's stepmother | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stepmother=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | gerund | dog's stepmother not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | spend | past · perfect | dog | all money | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset | ||||
| 4 | lose | past · perfect | dog not said here | three bunches of candles | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bunch=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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