More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 98
Yonder we must be this night," quoth the Bull; "for my elder brother lives yonder;" and presently they were at the place.
Who acts: we, you, daughters · What happens: be, quoth, live · To what, where: night, Bull, place · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (we, you, daughters), 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 | Yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 6 night | advmod |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 night | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 night | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 night | cop |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 night | det |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 quoth | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 night | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 quoth | punct |
| 9 | quoth | quoth | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Bull | det |
| 11 | Bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 quoth | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 lives | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 lives | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 brother | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 brother | nmod:poss |
| 16 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 brother | amod |
| 17 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lives | obl |
| 18 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 quoth | parataxis |
| 19 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 18 lives | advmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 lives | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 lives | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 place | cc |
| 23 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 28 place | advmod |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 place | nsubj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 place | cop |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 place | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 place | det |
| 28 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lives | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 quoth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | must | we | this night | yonder property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | quoth in a quote | imperative | you not said here | the Bull | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | live | present | for my elder brother; yonder property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | past | daughters = daughter | the place | presently property | 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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