More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 132

He gave a ball to each lass, and she was to keep it, and if she lost it, she was to be hanged.

Who acts: man, bonny · What happens: give, be, lose, hange · To what, where: ball, lass, bonny

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 (man, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 ball	det
4	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 lass	case
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 lass	det
7	lass	lass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 keep	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 keep	cc
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 keep	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 keep	cop
12	to	to	PART	_	13 keep	mark
13	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 gave	advcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 keep	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hanged	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 hanged	cc
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 lost	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 lost	nsubj
19	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 hanged	advcl
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 lost	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lost	punct
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 hanged	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 hanged	aux:pass
24	to	to	PART	_	26 hanged	mark
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 hanged	aux:pass
26	hanged	hange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 gave	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	man	a ball	each lass		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent ball=Theme to lass=Recipient
2	is	past	bonny			keep property	tree rules
3	lose a condition, not said to happen	past	bonny	Ball			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
4	hange	past · passive		bonny			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: «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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