More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 38
Accordingly the bride led her husband the next day to the flowery knoll, and bade him look through the self-bored stone.
Who acts: bride · What happens: lead, look · To what, where: husband, bade
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bride), 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 | Accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 4 led | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bride | det |
| 3 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 led | nsubj |
| 4 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 husband | nmod:poss |
| 6 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 led | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 day | det |
| 8 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 day | amod |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 led | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 knoll | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 knoll | det |
| 12 | flowery | flowery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 knoll | amod |
| 13 | knoll | knoll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 day | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 look | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 look | cc |
| 16 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 look | obl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 bade | obj |
| 18 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 led | conj |
| 19 | through | through | ADP | _ | 24 stone | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 stone | det |
| 21 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bored | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 self | punct |
| 23 | bored | bored | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 stone | amod |
| 24 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 look | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | the bride | bride's husband | day | accordingly property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Theme | ||
| 2 | look | present | the bride not said here | bade | through the bored stone | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through stone=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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