English Fairy Tales, The Rose-tree, sentence 6
She gave her the money; and the little girl went, bought the candles, and started on her return.
Who acts: stepmother, little girl · What happens: give, go, buy, start, return · To what, where: money, girl, candles, return
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 (stepmother, little girl), 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 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | iobj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 money | det |
| 5 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 girl | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 girl | amod |
| 10 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bought | punct |
| 13 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 went | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 candles | det |
| 15 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 bought | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 started | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 started | cc |
| 18 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 went | conj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 return | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 return | nmod:poss |
| 21 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 started | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | stepmother | the money | girl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient money=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | past | the little girl | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | buy | past | the little girl not said here | the candles | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent candle=Theme | ||||
| 4 | start | past | the little girl not said here | stepmother's return | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | return | stepmother | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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