More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 124
"Thy sin is pardoned," said his father; "but go thou to the Wise Woman of Brugeford, and find if aught can free us from this monster."
Who acts: father · What happens: pardon, say, go, find · To what, where: sin, thou · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 pardoned | punct |
| 2 | Thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 sin | nmod:poss |
| 3 | sin | sin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pardoned | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 pardoned | aux:pass |
| 5 | pardoned | pardon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 pardoned | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 pardoned | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 father | nmod:poss |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 go | cc |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 15 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 go | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Woman | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Woman | det |
| 18 | Wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Woman | amod |
| 19 | Woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 go | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Brugeford | case |
| 21 | Brugeford | Brugeford | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Woman | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 find | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 find | cc |
| 24 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 go | conj |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 free | mark |
| 26 | aught | aught | PRON | PronType=Ind | 28 free | nsubj |
| 27 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 free | aux |
| 28 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 find | ccomp |
| 29 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 free | nsubj |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 32 monster | case |
| 31 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 monster | det |
| 32 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 free | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pardon in a quote | present · passive | Thy sin | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Childe's father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | infinitive | thou | to the Wise Woman of Brugeford | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thou=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find in a quote | infinitive | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent |
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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