More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 62
Never were their hearts gladdened by the song and dance of the children issuing forth from amongst the ancient oaks of the forest.
Who acts: children · What happens: not be, gladden, issue, dance · To what, where: hearts, ancient oaks, children
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 (children), 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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 hearts | advmod |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hearts | cop |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 4 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | gladdened | gladden | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 hearts | acl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 song | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 song | det |
| 8 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gladdened | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 dance | cc |
| 10 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 song | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 children | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 children | det |
| 13 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 dance | nmod |
| 14 | issuing | issue | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 children | acl |
| 15 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 14 issuing | advmod |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 oaks | case |
| 17 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 20 oaks | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 oaks | det |
| 19 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 oaks | amod |
| 20 | oaks | oak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 issuing | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 forest | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 forest | det |
| 23 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 oaks | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hearts | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | elders's hearts | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | gladden | participle | elders's hearts not said here | by the song and dance of the children | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | issue | gerund | the children not said here | the ancient oaks of the forest | forth property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | dance | the children | nom dance «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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