More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 114
So he took down from its resting-place a rusty old sword that had belonged to some of his forebears, and set out in search of adventures.
Who acts: resolution, rusty old sword · What happens: take down, belong, set out, search · To what, where: resting place, search, adventures
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 (resolution, rusty old sword), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 took | compound:prt |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 place | case |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 place | nmod:poss |
| 7 | resting | resting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 place | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 resting | punct |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 sword | det |
| 11 | rusty | rusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sword | amod |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sword | amod |
| 13 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 place | appos |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 belonged | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 belonged | aux |
| 16 | belonged | belong | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 sword | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 some | case |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 belonged | obl:agent |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 forebears | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 forebears | nmod:poss |
| 21 | forebears | forebear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 some | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 set | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 set | cc |
| 24 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 set | compound:prt |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 search | case |
| 27 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 set | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 adventures | case |
| 29 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 search | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take down | past | resolution | honour's resting place | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | belong | past · perfect | a rusty old sword | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | set out | past | resolution not said here | search of adventures | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | search | adventures | nom search «act transitive»: of=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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