More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 22
O mother, hast brought my golden ball And come to set me free?"
Who acts: mother · What happens: have, bring, come, set · To what, where: golden ball, me
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 (mother), 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 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 2 mother | discourse |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hast | punct |
| 4 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 mother | acl:relcl |
| 5 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 ball | nmod:poss |
| 7 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ball | amod |
| 8 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | obj |
| 9 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 come | cc |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 brought | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 set | mark |
| 12 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 come | xcomp |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 set | obj |
| 14 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 set | xcomp |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 brought | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | mother not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bring | past | mother | my golden ball | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent ball=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | infinitive | mother not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | set | to-infinitive | mother not said here | me | free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient i=Result |
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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