More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 83
"And us thou sent'st to brood in the corners!" howled the Bogles.
Who acts: us, sent'st · What happens: sent'st, brood, howl · To what, where: corners, Bogles
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (us, sent'st), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sent'st | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 sent'st | cc |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 sent'st | nsubj |
| 4 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 sent'st | nsubj |
| 5 | sent'st | sent'st | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 howled | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 brood | mark |
| 7 | brood | brood | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sent'st | acl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 corners | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 corners | det |
| 10 | corners | corner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 brood | obl |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 sent'st | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sent'st | punct |
| 13 | howled | howl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Bogles | det |
| 15 | Bogles | Bogle | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 howled | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 howled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sent'st in a quote | us | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | brood in a quote | to-infinitive | sent'st not said here | the corners | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | howl | past | sent'st | the Bogles | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bogle=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/24/83/