More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 52
So that the pretty speech they had Made Murder's heart relent; And they that undertook the deed Full sore now did repent.
Who acts: Children · What happens: make, undertake, repent · To what, where: heart relent, deed
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 (Children), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 speech | advmod |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 speech | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 speech | det |
| 4 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 speech | amod |
| 5 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 Made | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Made | aux |
| 8 | Made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 speech | acl:relcl |
| 9 | Murder | Murder | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 relent | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Murder | case |
| 11 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 relent | compound |
| 12 | relent | relent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Made | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 undertook | punct |
| 14 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 undertook | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 undertook | nsubj |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 undertook | nsubj |
| 17 | undertook | undertake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Made | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 deed | det |
| 19 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 undertook | obj |
| 20 | Full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 deed | amod |
| 21 | sore | sore | ADV | _ | 24 repent | advmod |
| 22 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 repent | advmod |
| 23 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 repent | aux |
| 24 | repent | repent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 undertook | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 speech | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · perfect | Children = child | Murder's heart relent | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset relent=Product | ||||
| 2 | undertake | past | Children = child | the deed | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | repent | past · do-support | Children = child not said here | now | sore 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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