More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 11
It happened that his master heard him, and he asked, "Why do you blame Adam?
Who acts: It, master, man, you · What happens: happen, hear, ask, blame · To what, where: man, Adam · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, master, man, you), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 heard | mark |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 master | nmod:poss |
| 5 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | nsubj |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 happened | advcl |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 heard | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 asked | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 happened | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 blame | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 blame | punct |
| 14 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 blame | advmod |
| 15 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 blame | aux |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 blame | nsubj |
| 17 | blame | blame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 18 | Adam | Adam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 blame | obj |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | It | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hear | past | man's master | man | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | man | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | blame in a quote | present · do-support | you | Adam | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adam=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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