More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 53
Yet one of them, more hard of heart, Did vow to do his charge, Because the wretch that hired him Had paid him very large.
Who acts: wretch, Murder · What happens: vow, do, hire, pay, charge · To what, where: charge, wretch, Had
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 (wretch, Murder), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 7 hard | cc |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 hard | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 one | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 more | punct |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 hard | advmod |
| 7 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 heart | case |
| 9 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hard | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 vow | punct |
| 11 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 vow | aux |
| 12 | vow | vow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 hard | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 do | mark |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 vow | xcomp |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 charge | nmod:poss |
| 16 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 do | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 paid | punct |
| 18 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 25 paid | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 wretch | det |
| 20 | wretch | wretch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 paid | nsubj |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 hired | nsubj |
| 22 | hired | hire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 wretch | acl:relcl |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 hired | obj |
| 24 | Had | Had | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 paid | nsubj |
| 25 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 vow | advcl |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 paid | obj |
| 27 | very | very | ADV | _ | 28 large | advmod |
| 28 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 paid | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vow | past · do-support | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | Murder's charge | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | hire | past | the wretch | wretch | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pay | past | the wretch | Had | large property | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Asset | |||
| 5 | charge | Murder | nom charge «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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