More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 37

And to his little daughter Jane Five hundred pounds in gold, To be paid down on marriage-day, Which might not be controlled.

What happens: pay down, not control · To what, where: marriage day

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: 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	9 pounds	cc
2	to	to	ADP	_	5 daughter	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 daughter	nmod:poss
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 daughter	amod
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pounds	obl
6	Jane	Jane	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 pounds	compound
7	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 hundred	compound
8	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 pounds	nummod
9	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 gold	case
11	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pounds	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 paid	punct
13	To	to	PART	_	15 paid	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 paid	aux:pass
15	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 pounds	acl
16	down	down	ADP	_	15 paid	compound:prt
17	on	on	ADP	_	20 day	case
18	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 day	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 marriage	punct
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 paid	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 controlled	punct
22	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 controlled	nsubj:pass
23	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 controlled	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 controlled	advmod
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 controlled	aux:pass
26	controlled	control	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 day	acl:relcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 pounds	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay down	to-infinitive · passive					day		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»
2	not control	might · passive		marriage day					vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: subject=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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