More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 43
And when they were young they loved one another and plighted their troth.
Who acts: son · What happens: be, love, plight · To what, where: one, troth
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: who acts (son), 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 | _ | 7 loved | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 young | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 young | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 young | cop |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 loved | obj |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 loved | nsubj |
| 7 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 loved | obj |
| 9 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 one | fixed |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 plighted | cc |
| 11 | plighted | plight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 loved | conj |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 troth | nmod:poss |
| 13 | troth | troth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 plighted | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | son | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | love | past | son | one | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | plight | participle | son not said here | son's troth | 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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