More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 1
The herdboy pulled out his pipe and played a low sweet tune, and the stranger looked again and again at Tattercoats' lovely face till he fell deeply in love with her, and begged her to marry him.
Who acts: herdboy, stranger · What happens: pull out, play, look, fall, beg, marry · To what, where: pipe, low sweet tune, love, her, stranger
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (herdboy, stranger), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 herdboy | det |
| 2 | herdboy | herdboy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pulled | nsubj |
| 3 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 pulled | compound:prt |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 pipe | nmod:poss |
| 6 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pulled | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 played | cc |
| 8 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pulled | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tune | det |
| 10 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tune | amod |
| 11 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tune | amod |
| 12 | tune | tune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 played | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 looked | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 looked | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 stranger | det |
| 16 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 looked | nsubj |
| 17 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pulled | conj |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 looked | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 again | cc |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 again | conj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 face | case |
| 22 | Tattercoats | tattercoat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 face | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 22 Tattercoats | case |
| 24 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 face | amod |
| 25 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 looked | obl |
| 26 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 28 fell | mark |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 fell | nsubj |
| 28 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 looked | advcl |
| 29 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 28 fell | advmod |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 love | case |
| 31 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fell | obl |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 her | case |
| 33 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 fell | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 begged | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 begged | cc |
| 36 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pulled | conj |
| 37 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 begged | obj |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 marry | mark |
| 39 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 begged | xcomp |
| 40 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 marry | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull out | past | the herdboy | herdboy's pipe | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | play | past | the herdboy not said here | a low sweet tune | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look | past | the stranger | again | at Tattercoats's lovely face | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at face=Theme | |||
| 4 | fall | past | stranger | love | with her = she; deeply property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location | |||
| 5 | beg speech: request | past | the herdboy not said here | her = she | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | the herdboy not said here | stranger | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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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