More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 65
At last he arrives at the cross-roads, where he has to meet his brothers on the very day appointed.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: arrive, have, meet, appoint · To what, where: last, brothers, day
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arrives | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 arrives | nsubj |
| 4 | arrives | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 cross-roads | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cross-roads | det |
| 7 | cross-roads | cross-road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 arrives | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 has | punct |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 has | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 has | nsubj |
| 11 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 cross-roads | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 meet | mark |
| 13 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 has | xcomp |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 15 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 meet | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 day | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 day | det |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 day | advmod |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 meet | obl |
| 20 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 day | acl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 arrives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | present | Jack | last | at the cross-roads | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | present | Jack | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | meet | to-infinitive | Jack not said here | Jack's brothers | day | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Co-Agent | |||
| 4 | appoint | participle | the day not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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