More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 70
And with that King John sent away the shepherd with a right royal present, besides his pension.
Who acts: right royal present, shepherd · What happens: send away, beside, pension · To what, where: shepherd, pension
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 (right royal present, shepherd), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 sent | cc |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 that | case |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 sent | obl |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 John | nmod:desc |
| 5 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 that | nmod |
| 6 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 sent | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 shepherd | det |
| 9 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sent | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 present | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 present | det |
| 12 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 present | amod |
| 13 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 present | amod |
| 14 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sent | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 besides | punct |
| 16 | besides | beside | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 present | acl:relcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 pension | nmod:poss |
| 18 | pension | pension | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 besides | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send away | past | the shepherd | with that; with a right royal present; away property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shepherd=Theme | ||||
| 2 | beside | present | a right royal present not said here | shepherd's pension | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pension | shepherd | nom pension «possession 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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