More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 42
"Welcome home, Lord Abbot," quoth the shepherd; "what news from good King John?"
Who acts: Lord · What happens: quoth · To what, where: shepherd
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 (Lord), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 quoth | punct |
| 2 | Welcome | welcome | INTJ | _ | 9 quoth | discourse |
| 3 | home | home | ADV | _ | 2 Welcome | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Welcome | punct |
| 5 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 quoth | nsubj |
| 6 | Abbot | Abbot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Lord | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 quoth | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 quoth | punct |
| 9 | quoth | quoth | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 shepherd | det |
| 11 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 quoth | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 what | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 what | punct |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 quoth | obj |
| 15 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 what | nsubj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 John | case |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 John | amod |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 John | nmod:desc |
| 19 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 news | nmod |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 quoth | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 quoth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quoth | infinitive | Lord | the shepherd | tree rules |
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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