More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 46

The parents being dead and gone, The children home he takes, And brings them straight unto his house Where much of them he makes.

Who acts: parents, children, much · What happens: be, take, bring, make · To what, where: Children

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 (parents, children, much), 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 parents	det
2	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dead	nsubj
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 dead	cop
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 gone	cc
6	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dead	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 takes	punct
8	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 children	det
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 takes	nsubj
10	home	home	ADV	_	12 takes	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 takes	nsubj
12	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dead	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 brings	punct
14	And	and	CCONJ	_	15 brings	cc
15	brings	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 takes	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 brings	obj
17	straight	straight	ADV	_	20 house	advmod
18	unto	unto	ADP	_	20 house	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 house	nmod:poss
20	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 brings	obl
21	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 much	advmod
22	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 makes	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 much	nmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 makes	nsubj
26	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 house	acl:relcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dead	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	gerund	the parents		dead property	tree rules
2	be		the parents not said here			tree rules
3	take	present	the children		home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	bring	present	the children not said here	Children = child	unto God's house	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	make	present	much of Children			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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