More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 30
That being the third night and the damsel being between hope and despair, she broke her plum, and it held far the richest jewellery of the three.
Who acts: That, damsel, plum · What happens: be, break, hold · To what, where: third night, plum, richest jewellery
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, damsel, plum), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 night | nsubj |
| 2 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 night | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 night | det |
| 4 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 night | amod |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 broke | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 hope | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 damsel | det |
| 8 | damsel | damsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hope | nsubj |
| 9 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 hope | cop |
| 10 | between | between | ADP | _ | 11 hope | case |
| 11 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 night | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 despair | cc |
| 13 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hope | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 night | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 broke | nsubj |
| 16 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 plum | nmod:poss |
| 18 | plum | plum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 broke | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 held | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 held | cc |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 held | nsubj |
| 22 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 broke | conj |
| 23 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 jewellery | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 jewellery | det |
| 25 | richest | rich | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 26 jewellery | amod |
| 26 | jewellery | jewellery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 held | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 three | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 three | det |
| 29 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 jewellery | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | gerund | That | the third night and hope and despair | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | gerund | the damsel | between hope and despair | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | break | past | damsel | damsel's plum | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plum=Patient | ||||
| 4 | hold | past | plum | the richest jewellery of the three | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jewellery=Theme |
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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