More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 63
You that executors be made, And overseers eke, Of children that be fatherless, And infants mild and meek, Take you example by this thing, And yield to each his right, Lest God with suchlike misery Your wicked minds requite.
Who acts: God, overseers, children, infants, wicked minds, Your · What happens: make, eke, be, take, requite, mind · To what, where: You, suchlike misery
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, overseers, children, infants), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 made | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | executors | executor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 made | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 made | aux:pass |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 eke | punct |
| 7 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 eke | cc |
| 8 | overseers | overseer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 eke | nsubj |
| 9 | eke | eke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 children | punct |
| 11 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 12 children | case |
| 12 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 eke | obl |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 fatherless | nsubj |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 fatherless | cop |
| 15 | fatherless | fatherless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 children | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Take | punct |
| 17 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 Take | cc |
| 18 | infants | infant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 Take | nsubj |
| 19 | mild | mild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 infants | amod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 meek | cc |
| 21 | meek | meek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 mild | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 infants | punct |
| 23 | Take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 made | conj |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 Take | obj |
| 25 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Take | obj |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 thing | case |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 thing | det |
| 28 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Take | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 yield | punct |
| 30 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 yield | cc |
| 31 | yield | yield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obl |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 each | case |
| 33 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 yield | nmod |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 right | nmod:poss |
| 35 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 each | acl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 God | punct |
| 37 | Lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 38 God | case |
| 38 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obl:agent |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 misery | case |
| 40 | suchlike | suchlike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 misery | amod |
| 41 | misery | misery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 God | nmod |
| 42 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 minds | nmod:poss |
| 43 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 minds | amod |
| 44 | minds | mind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 requite | nsubj |
| 45 | requite | requite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 misery | acl:relcl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | infinitive · passive | God with suchlike misery | You | yield to each obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product | |||
| 2 | eke | present | overseers | of children | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | infinitive | children | fatherless property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take | infinitive | infants | you | by this thing | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Theme example=Destination | |||
| 5 | requite | present | Your wicked minds | suchlike misery not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | mind | Your | nom mind «cognition 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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