More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 90
He kept men and maids and lived most bravely; made him a park to keep deer, and time passed with him happily in his great house till the end of his days.
Who acts: Tom · What happens: keep, live, make, pass · To what, where: men, park, Tom, deer, great house
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 kept | nsubj |
| 2 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 kept | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 maids | cc |
| 5 | maids | maid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 men | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 lived | cc |
| 7 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 kept | conj |
| 8 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 9 bravely | advmod |
| 9 | bravely | bravely | ADV | _ | 7 lived | advmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 kept | parataxis |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 made | obj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 park | det |
| 14 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 keep | mark |
| 16 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 made | advcl |
| 17 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 keep | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 passed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 passed | cc |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 kept | conj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 passed | obl |
| 24 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 21 passed | advmod |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 house | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 house | nmod:poss |
| 27 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 house | amod |
| 28 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 passed | obl |
| 29 | till | till | ADP | _ | 31 end | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 end | det |
| 31 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 passed | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 days | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 days | nmod:poss |
| 34 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 end | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | Tom | men and maids | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | ||||
| 2 | live | past | Tom not said here | bravely property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | past | a park | Tom | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary park=Product | ||||
| 4 | keep | to-infinitive | deer | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Theme | |||||
| 5 | pass | participle | Tom not said here | Tom's great house | till the end of Tom's days; time | with Tom; happily property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in house=Location |
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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