More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 114
But they couldn't show any dragons' tongues, so they were turned away.
Who acts: signs · What happens: not show, turn away · To what, where: tongues, signs
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (signs), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 show | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 show | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 show | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 show | advmod |
| 5 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 dragons | det |
| 7 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 tongues | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 7 dragons | case |
| 9 | tongues | tongue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 show | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 turned | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 turned | advmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 turned | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 turned | aux:pass |
| 14 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 show | conj |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 turned | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not show | could | signs = sign | any dragons's tongues | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tongue=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | turn away | past · passive | signs = sign | away property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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