More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 127
But ye all know, pride must have a fall, for as they rode along a raven sang out of a bush--
Who acts: ye, pride, sisters, raven · What happens: know, have, ride along, sing out · To what, where: fall, bush
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ye, pride, sisters, raven), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 have | cc |
| 2 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 know | nsubj |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 know | advmod |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 have | parataxis |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 6 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | nsubj |
| 7 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 have | aux |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 fall | det |
| 10 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 rode | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 rode | mark |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 rode | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 rode | nsubj |
| 15 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 have | parataxis |
| 16 | along | along | ADP | _ | 19 sang | mark |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 raven | det |
| 18 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sang | nsubj |
| 19 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 rode | advcl |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 bush | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 bush | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 bush | det |
| 23 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sang | obl |
| 24 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | ye | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | have | must | pride | a fall | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fall=Patient | ||||
| 3 | ride along | past | sisters = sister | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | sing out speech: express | past | a raven | a bush | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bush=Theme |
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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