More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 159
A woman had one fair daughter, who loved play better than work, wandering in the meadows and lanes better than the spinning-wheel and distaff.
Who acts: woman, one fair daughter · What happens: have, love, wonder · To what, where: one fair daughter, play, meadows
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 (woman, one fair daughter), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 woman | det |
| 2 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 daughter | nummod |
| 5 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 daughter | amod |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 loved | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 loved | nsubj |
| 9 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 daughter | acl:relcl |
| 10 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 loved | obj |
| 11 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 loved | advmod |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 work | case |
| 13 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 better | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wandering | punct |
| 15 | wandering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 loved | advcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 meadows | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 meadows | det |
| 18 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 wandering | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 lanes | cc |
| 20 | lanes | lane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 meadows | conj |
| 21 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 wandering | advmod |
| 22 | than | than | ADP | _ | 26 wheel | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 wheel | det |
| 24 | spinning | spinning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 wheel | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 spinning | punct |
| 26 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 better | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 distaff | cc |
| 28 | distaff | distaff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 wheel | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | a woman | one fair daughter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | ||||
| 2 | love | past | one fair daughter | play | well property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer play=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | one fair daughter not said here | the meadows and lanes | well property | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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