Celtic Fairy Tales, Brewery of Eggshells, sentence 6
She rushed home, but found her two little ones in the cradle and everything seemed as it was before.
Who acts: cot, two little ones, cradle · What happens: rush, find, seem, be · To what, where: cot · Speech: someone speaks here
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, two little ones, cradle), 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 rushed | nsubj |
| 2 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | home | home | ADV | _ | 2 rushed | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 found | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 found | cc |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rushed | conj |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 found | obj |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 ones | nummod |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ones | amod |
| 10 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 seemed | nsubj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 cradle | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cradle | det |
| 13 | cradle | cradle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ones | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 everything | cc |
| 15 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 13 cradle | conj |
| 16 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 found | ccomp |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 before | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 before | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 before | cop |
| 20 | before | before | ADV | _ | 16 seemed | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | past | cot | home property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past | cot not said here | cot | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent she=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | seem | past | two little ones in the cradle | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | cradle | before property | 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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