More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 42
Young Tamlane was son of Earl Murray, and Burd Janet was daughter of Dunbar, Earl of March.
What happens: be · To what, where: Tamlane son, Janet daughter
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Tamlane | amod |
| 2 | Tamlane | Tamlane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 son | compound |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 son | cop |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Earl | case |
| 6 | Earl | Earl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod |
| 7 | Murray | Murray | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Earl | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 daughter | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 daughter | cc |
| 10 | Burd | Burd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Janet | compound |
| 11 | Janet | Janet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 daughter | compound |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 daughter | cop |
| 13 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 son | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Dunbar | case |
| 15 | Dunbar | Dunbar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 daughter | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Earl | punct |
| 17 | Earl | Earl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Dunbar | appos |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 March | case |
| 19 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Earl | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 son | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Tamlane son and Janet daughter | of Earl | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Janet daughter | of Dunbar | 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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