More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 48

He bargained with two ruffians strong, Which were of furious mood, That they should take these children young, And slay them in a wood.

Who acts: God, two ruffians, That · What happens: bargain, be, take, slay · To what, where: children, wood

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, two ruffians, That), 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	2 bargained	nsubj
2	bargained	bargain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 ruffians	case
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 ruffians	nummod
5	ruffians	ruffian	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bargained	obl
6	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ruffians	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mood	punct
8	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 mood	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 mood	cop
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 mood	case
11	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 mood	amod
12	mood	mood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ruffians	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 take	punct
14	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 take	nsubj
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 take	nsubj
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 take	aux
17	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 bargained	parataxis
18	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	19 children	det
19	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 take	obj
20	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 take	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 slay	punct
22	And	and	CCONJ	_	23 slay	cc
23	slay	slay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 take	conj
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 slay	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 wood	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 wood	det
27	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 slay	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bargained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bargain	past	God			with two ruffians and furious mood	vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with ruffian=Co-Agent
2	is	past	two ruffians and furious mood			of furious mood	tree rules
3	take	should	That	this children			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument child=Theme young=Destination
4	slay	infinitive	That not said here	Children = child	a wood		vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/25/48/