English Fairy Tales, The Old Woman and Her Pig, sentence 1
An old woman was sweeping her house, and she found a little crooked sixpence.
Who acts: old woman, woman · What happens: sweep, find · To what, where: house, little crooked sixpence
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Old Woman and Her Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, woman), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sweeping | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sweeping | aux |
| 5 | sweeping | sweep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 house | nmod:poss |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sweeping | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 found | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 found | nsubj |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sweeping | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 sixpence | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sixpence | amod |
| 14 | crooked | crooked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sixpence | amod |
| 15 | sixpence | sixpence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sweeping | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sweep | past · progressive | a old woman | woman's house | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | find | past | woman | a little crooked sixpence | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sixpence=Topic |
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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