More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 59
Now, at the end of a twelvemonth, Gobborn, the wise man, had built such a castle thousands were gathered to admire it.
Who acts: castle · What happens: build, gather, admire · To what, where: castle, end, thousands
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 (castle), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 built | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 end | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 end | det |
| 5 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 built | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 twelvemonth | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 twelvemonth | det |
| 8 | twelvemonth | twelvemonth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 end | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Gobborn | punct |
| 10 | Gobborn | Gobborn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 twelvemonth | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 man | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 13 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Gobborn | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 end | punct |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 built | aux |
| 17 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 18 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 castle | det:predet |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 castle | det |
| 20 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 built | obj |
| 21 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 gathered | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 gathered | aux:pass |
| 23 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 castle | acl:relcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 admire | mark |
| 25 | admire | admire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 gathered | xcomp |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 admire | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past · perfect | such castle | at the end of a twelvemonth; now | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset castle=Product | ||||
| 2 | gather | past · passive | such castle not said here | thousands | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | admire | to-infinitive | such castle not said here | castle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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