More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 128

There were two lasses, daughters of one mother, and as they came from the fair, they saw a right bonny young man stand at the house-door before them.

Who acts: two lasses, lasses, right bonny · What happens: be, come, see, stand · To what, where: fair, house door · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two lasses, lasses, right bonny), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 lasses	nummod
4	lasses	lass	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 daughters	punct
6	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lasses	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 mother	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 mother	nummod
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 daughters	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 saw	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 saw	cc
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 came	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 saw	advcl
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 fair	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fair	det
17	fair	fair	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 saw	nsubj
20	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 were	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 bonny	det
22	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 bonny	amod
23	bonny	bonny	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stand	nsubj
24	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 man	amod
25	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stand	nsubj
26	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 saw	ccomp
27	at	at	ADP	_	31 door	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 door	det
29	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 door	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 house	punct
31	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stand	obl
32	before	before	ADP	_	33 them	case
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 stand	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	be	past	two lasses and daughters of one mother	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	lasses = lass	the fair		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from fair=Initial_Location
3	see	past	lasses = lass			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	stand	infinitive	a right bonny	the house door	before door	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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