More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 36

The father left his little son, As plainly did appear, When he to perfect age should come, Three hundred pounds a year;

Who acts: father · What happens: leave, appear, come · To what, where: little son, hundred pounds

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 (father), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 father	det
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 left	nsubj
3	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 son	nmod:poss
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 son	amod
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 left	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 appear	punct
8	As	as	SCONJ	_	11 appear	mark
9	plainly	plainly	ADV	_	11 appear	advmod
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 appear	aux
11	appear	appear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 left	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 come	punct
13	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 come	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 come	nsubj
15	to	to	PART	_	17 age	mark
16	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 age	amod
17	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 come	nsubj
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 come	aux
19	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 appear	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Three	punct
21	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 hundred	compound
22	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 pounds	nummod
23	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 come	obl
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 year	det
25	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pounds	nmod:unmarked
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	leave	past	the father	father's little son		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme
2	appear	past · do-support			plainly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	should	father	hundred pounds a year		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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