More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 138
Some time after a rebellion broke out among the subjects of his father-in-law.
What happens: break out · To what, where: subjects
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: 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 broke | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 rebellion | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 rebellion | det |
| 5 | rebellion | rebellion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 time | nmod |
| 6 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 broke | compound:prt |
| 8 | among | among | ADP | _ | 10 subjects | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 subjects | det |
| 10 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 broke | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 father | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 father | nmod:poss |
| 13 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 subjects | nmod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 law | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 law | case |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 in | punct |
| 17 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 father | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break out | past | the subjects of Johnny's father in law | time | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among subject=Location |
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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