More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 47
He had not kept these pretty babes A twelvemonth and a day, But, for their wealth, he did devise To make them both away.
Who acts: God · What happens: not keep, devise, make away · To what, where: God, 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 (God), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kept | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 kept | advmod |
| 4 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 babes | det |
| 6 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 babes | amod |
| 7 | babes | babe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 kept | obj |
| 8 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 twelvemonth | det |
| 9 | twelvemonth | twelvemonth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 babes | appos |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 day | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 day | det |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 twelvemonth | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 devise | punct |
| 14 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 devise | cc |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 But | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 wealth | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 wealth | nmod:poss |
| 18 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 devise | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wealth | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 devise | nsubj |
| 21 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 devise | aux |
| 22 | devise | devise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 kept | advcl |
| 23 | To | to | PART | _ | 24 make | mark |
| 24 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 devise | xcomp |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 make | obj |
| 26 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 them | appos |
| 27 | away | away | ADV | _ | 24 make | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not keep | past · perfect · passive | God | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme babe=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | devise | past · do-support | God | for Children's wealth | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make away | to-infinitive | God not said here | Children = child | away property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |
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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