More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 1
So she was taken away to be hanged by the neck till she was dead because she'd lost her ball.
Who acts: neck, she · What happens: take away, hange, be, lose · To what, where: she, ball
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neck, she), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 taken | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 taken | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 taken | aux:pass |
| 4 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 taken | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 hanged | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 hanged | aux:pass |
| 8 | hanged | hange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 taken | advcl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 neck | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 neck | det |
| 11 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hanged | obl |
| 12 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 15 dead | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 dead | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 dead | cop |
| 15 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hanged | advcl |
| 16 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 19 lost | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 lost | nsubj |
| 18 | 'd | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 lost | aux |
| 19 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 hanged | advcl |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 ball | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lost | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take away | past · passive | she | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hange | to-infinitive · passive | the neck | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | past | she | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | lose | past · perfect | she | her ball | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Eventuality |
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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