More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 117
John's heart rose to the deed, and he offered himself for the service.
Who acts: heart · What happens: rise, offer · To what, where: deed, heart
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 (heart), 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 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 heart | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 John | case |
| 3 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rose | nsubj |
| 4 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 deed | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 deed | det |
| 7 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rose | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 offered | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 offered | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 offered | nsubj |
| 11 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rose | conj |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 offered | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 service | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 service | det |
| 15 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 offered | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | John's heart | the deed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to deed=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | offer | past | heart | heart | for the service goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent himself=Theme for service=Goal |
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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