More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 27
They had two cows, five hens, and a cock, a cat and two kittens.
Who acts: lords · What happens: have · To what, where: two cows
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 (lords), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 cows | nummod |
| 4 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hens | punct |
| 6 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 hens | nummod |
| 7 | hens | hen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cows | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cock | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 cock | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 cock | det |
| 11 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cat | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 cat | det |
| 14 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cock | appos |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 kittens | cc |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 kittens | nummod |
| 17 | kittens | kitten | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 cat | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | lords = lord | two cows and five hens | tree rules |
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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