More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 74
Their father had no work, and the girls wanted to go away and seek their fortunes.
Who acts: father, girls · What happens: have, want, go away, seek · To what, where: work, fortunes
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, girls), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 work | det |
| 5 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wanted | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 wanted | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 girls | det |
| 9 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 wanted | nsubj |
| 10 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 go | mark |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wanted | xcomp |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 go | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 seek | cc |
| 15 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 go | conj |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 fortunes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | fortunes | fortune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 seek | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | girls's father | no work | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Patient | ||||
| 2 | want | past | the girls | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go away not said to happen | to-infinitive | the girls not said here | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | seek | infinitive | the girls not said here | girls's fortunes | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme |
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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