More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 97
The young lord went the very next day to his mother, the lady of the castle, and declared he would wed none other but the lady of the silver dress, and would never rest till he had found her.
Who acts: young lord, lord · What happens: go, declare, wed, not rest, find · To what, where: none, truth
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 (young lord, lord), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lord | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lord | amod |
| 3 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 day | det |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 next | advmod |
| 7 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 day | amod |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 mother | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 mother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lady | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 lady | det |
| 14 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mother | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 castle | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 castle | det |
| 17 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lady | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 declared | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 declared | cc |
| 20 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 wed | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 wed | aux |
| 23 | wed | wed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 declared | xcomp |
| 24 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 23 wed | obj |
| 25 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 none | amod |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 lady | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 lady | det |
| 28 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 none | conj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 dress | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 dress | det |
| 31 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 dress | amod |
| 32 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lady | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 rest | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 rest | cc |
| 35 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 rest | aux |
| 36 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 37 rest | advmod |
| 37 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 wed | conj |
| 38 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 41 found | mark |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 found | nsubj |
| 40 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 found | aux |
| 41 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 37 rest | ccomp |
| 42 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 found | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the young lord | day | to lord's mother and the lady of the castle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mother=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | declare speech: other | past | the young lord not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | wed | would | lord | none | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not rest | would | lord not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | find | past · perfect | lord | truth | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
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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