More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 61
And now at last this wicked act Did by this means come out,
Who acts: wicked act, last · What happens: do, mean, come out · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (wicked act, last), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 last | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 last | advmod |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 last | case |
| 4 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 means | nsubj |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 act | det |
| 6 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 act | amod |
| 7 | act | act | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Did | nsubj |
| 8 | Did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 last | acl:relcl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 this | case |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 Did | obl |
| 11 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 means | ccomp |
| 13 | out | out | ADV | _ | 12 come | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | this wicked act | by this | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | last | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come out | infinitive | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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.
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