More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 80
Tom laid at him till he was dead, and then, cutting off his head, he went into the cave, and found a great store of silver and gold, which made his heart to leap.
Who acts: Tom, great store, heart · What happens: lay, be, cut off, go, find, make · To what, where: head, cave, great store, heart
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tom, great store, heart), 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 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 laid | nsubj |
| 2 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 laid | obl |
| 5 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 8 dead | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 dead | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 dead | cop |
| 8 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 laid | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cutting | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 cutting | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 cutting | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cutting | punct |
| 13 | cutting | cut | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 laid | advcl |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 cutting | compound:prt |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 head | nmod:poss |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cutting | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 went | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 went | nsubj |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 laid | conj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 cave | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 cave | det |
| 22 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 found | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 found | cc |
| 25 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 laid | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 store | det |
| 27 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 store | amod |
| 28 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 found | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 silver | case |
| 30 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 store | nmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 gold | cc |
| 32 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 store | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 made | punct |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 made | nsubj |
| 35 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 store | acl:relcl |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 heart | nmod:poss |
| 37 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 made | obj |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 leap | mark |
| 39 | leap | leap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 made | xcomp |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | past | Tom | at blow | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at he=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Tom | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cut off | gerund | Tom not said here | Tom's head | then | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | go | past | Tom | the cave | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into cave=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | find | past | Tom not said here | a great store of silver and gold | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent store=Topic | ||||
| 6 | make | past | a great store of silver and gold | Tom's heart | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | leap | to-infinitive | Tom's heart not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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