More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 41
With that bespake their mother dear: "O brother kind," quoth she, "You are the man must bring our babes To wealth or misery.
Who acts: You · What happens: bespake, quoth, be · To what, where: mother, Ere
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 (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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 bespake | obl |
| 3 | bespake | bespake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 mother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bespake | obj |
| 6 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bespake | xcomp |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 kind | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 kind | punct |
| 9 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 11 kind | discourse |
| 10 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kind | compound |
| 11 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bespake | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 quoth | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 quoth | punct |
| 14 | quoth | quoth | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 kind | parataxis |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 quoth | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 bring | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 bring | punct |
| 18 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 bring | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 bring | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 man | det |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bring | nsubj |
| 22 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 bring | aux |
| 23 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 quoth | conj |
| 24 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 babes | nmod:poss |
| 25 | babes | babe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 bring | obj |
| 26 | To | to | ADP | _ | 27 wealth | case |
| 27 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bring | obl |
| 28 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 misery | cc |
| 29 | misery | misery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 wealth | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bespake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bespake | present | Children's mother | with that; dear property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | quoth | infinitive | Ere | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | must · present | You | to wealth or misery; bring property | tree rules |
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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