More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 126
Then his step-father came and wanted to own him, but the young king didn't know such a man.
Who acts: step father, young king · What happens: come, want, own, not know · To what, where: king, man
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 (step father, young king), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 came | advmod |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 father | nmod:poss |
| 3 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 father | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 step | punct |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 wanted | cc |
| 8 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 own | mark |
| 10 | own | own | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 wanted | xcomp |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 own | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 know | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 know | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 15 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 king | amod |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 know | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 know | aux |
| 18 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 know | advmod |
| 19 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 came | conj |
| 20 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 man | det:predet |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 know | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | king's step father | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | want | past | king's step father not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | own not said to happen | to-infinitive | king's step father not said here | king | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not know | past · do-support | the young king | such man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |
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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