More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 89
And then the Elfin court rode away, and Burd Janet and young Tamlane went their way homewards and were soon after married after young Tamlane had again been sained by the holy water and made Christian once more.
Who acts: Elfin court, Burd, holy water · What happens: ride away, go, marry, sain, make · To what, where: way homewards, young Tamlane
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 (Elfin court, Burd, holy water), 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 rode | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 rode | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 court | det |
| 4 | Elfin | Elfin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 court | compound |
| 5 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rode | nsubj |
| 6 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 rode | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 went | cc |
| 10 | Burd | Burd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 went | nsubj |
| 11 | Janet | Janet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Burd | flat |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Tamlane | cc |
| 13 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Tamlane | amod |
| 14 | Tamlane | Tamlane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Burd | conj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rode | conj |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 homewards | nmod:poss |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 homewards | compound |
| 18 | homewards | homeward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 went | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 married | cc |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 married | aux:pass |
| 21 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 married | advmod |
| 22 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 23 married | mark |
| 23 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 went | conj |
| 24 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 30 sained | mark |
| 25 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Tamlane | amod |
| 26 | Tamlane | Tamlane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 sained | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 sained | aux |
| 28 | again | again | ADV | _ | 30 sained | advmod |
| 29 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 sained | aux:pass |
| 30 | sained | sain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 married | advcl |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 34 water | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 water | det |
| 33 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 water | amod |
| 34 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 sained | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 made | cc |
| 36 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 married | conj |
| 37 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 made | xcomp |
| 38 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 39 more | advmod |
| 39 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 36 made | advmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride away | past | the Elfin court | then | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | go | past | Burd and young Tamlane | arms's way homewards | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location homeward=Theme | ||||
| 3 | marry | past · passive | Burd and young Tamlane not said here | soon property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 4 | sain | past · perfect · passive | the holy water | young Tamlane | again | tree rules | |||
| 5 | make | past | Burd and young Tamlane not said here | christian property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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