More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 9
Had they stopped here it might have been borne.
Who acts: mead · What happens: stop, bear · To what, where: tail
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 (mead), 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 | Had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stopped | aux |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stopped | nsubj |
| 3 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 stopped | advmod |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 borne | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 borne | aux |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 borne | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 borne | aux:pass |
| 9 | borne | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 stopped | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | mead | here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | bear | might · perfect · passive | tail | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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