More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 49
Yes, poor gentleman, he took to his bed as soon as he heard of it.
Who acts: poor gentleman, gentleman · What happens: take, hear
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 (poor gentleman, gentleman), 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 gentleman | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 gentleman | amod |
| 4 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gentleman | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 took | nsubj |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 bed | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 bed | nmod:poss |
| 10 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obl |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 soon | advmod |
| 12 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 took | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 heard | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 heard | nsubj |
| 15 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 soon | advcl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 heard | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | poor gentleman | to gentleman's bed result; soon property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to bed=Result | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | gentleman | of bed | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=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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