More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 56
Gobborn Seer said never a word, but Jack began his story, and the road was shortened as his wife had said.
Who acts: Gobborn Seer, Jack, wife · What happens: say, begin, shorten · To what, where: word, story, road · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gobborn Seer, Jack, wife), 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 | Gobborn | Gobborn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Seer | compound |
| 2 | Seer | seer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 word | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 word | det |
| 6 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 began | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 began | cc |
| 9 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 began | nsubj |
| 10 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | parataxis |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 story | nmod:poss |
| 12 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 began | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 shortened | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 shortened | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 road | det |
| 16 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shortened | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 shortened | aux:pass |
| 18 | shortened | shorten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 began | conj |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 said | mark |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 wife | nmod:poss |
| 21 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 said | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 said | aux |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 shortened | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Gobborn Seer | a word | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | Jack | Jack's story | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | shorten | past · passive | the road | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past · perfect | Jack's wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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