More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 134
Then they folded the skin over them, and the king struck the heap of bone and skin with his rod.
Who acts: bones, king · What happens: fold, strike · To what, where: skin, heap
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bones, king), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 folded | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 folded | nsubj |
| 3 | folded | fold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 skin | det |
| 5 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 folded | obj |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 folded | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 struck | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 struck | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 struck | nsubj |
| 12 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 folded | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 heap | det |
| 14 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 struck | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 bone | case |
| 16 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 heap | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 skin | cc |
| 18 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 heap | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 rod | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 rod | nmod:poss |
| 21 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 struck | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 folded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fold | past | bones = bone | the skin | then | over imps = imp | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent skin=Patient | ||
| 2 | strike | past | the king | the heap of bone and skin | with king's rod | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent heap=Patient with rod=Instrument |
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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