More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 24
In the reign of King John there lived an Abbot of Canterbury who kept up grand state in his Abbey.
Who acts: Abbot · What happens: live, keep up · To what, where: Abbot, reign, grand state, Abbey
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 (Abbot), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 reign | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 reign | det |
| 3 | reign | reign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lived | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 John | case |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 John | nmod:desc |
| 6 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 reign | nmod |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 lived | advmod |
| 8 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Abbot | det |
| 10 | Abbot | Abbot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 lived | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Canterbury | case |
| 12 | Canterbury | Canterbury | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Abbot | nmod |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 kept | nsubj |
| 14 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 Abbot | acl:relcl |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 kept | compound:prt |
| 16 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 state | amod |
| 17 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 kept | xcomp |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 Abbey | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 Abbey | nmod:poss |
| 20 | Abbey | Abbey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 kept | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a Abbot of Canterbury | the reign of John King; there | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme abbot=Location | ||||
| 2 | keep up | past | a Abbot of Canterbury | grand state | Canterbury's Abbey | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: 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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