Celtic Fairy Tales, Brewery of Eggshells, sentence 5

Well, she went and came back as soon as she could, but on her way back she was frightened to see some old elves of the blue petticoat crossing her path though it was midday.

Who acts: cot, blue petticoat, way · What happens: go, come back, frighten, see, cross, be · To what, where: way, old elves, path, midday

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Brewery of Eggshells. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cot, blue petticoat, way), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 came	cc
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 soon	advmod
9	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 came	advmod
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 could	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 could	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 soon	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 frightened	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 frightened	cc
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 way	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 way	nmod:poss
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 frightened	nsubj:pass
18	back	back	ADV	_	17 way	advmod
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 frightened	nsubj:pass
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 frightened	aux:pass
21	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 went	parataxis
22	to	to	PART	_	23 see	mark
23	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 frightened	advcl
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 elves	det
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 elves	amod
26	elves	elf	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 see	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 petticoat	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 petticoat	det
29	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 petticoat	amod
30	petticoat	petticoat	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 elves	nmod
31	crossing	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 petticoat	acl
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 path	nmod:poss
33	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 crossing	obj
34	though	though	SCONJ	_	37 midday	mark
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 midday	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 midday	cop
37	midday	midday	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 crossing	advcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	cot			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come back	past	cot not said here		soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	frighten	past · passive		cot's way		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
4	see	to-infinitive		some old elves of the blue petticoat		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer elf=Stimulus
5	cross	gerund	the blue petticoat not said here	cot's path		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Patient
6	is a	past	way	midday		tree rules

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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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