More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 130
Thou, and thou alone, canst kill the Worm.
Who acts: Thou · What happens: kill · To what, where: Worm
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 (Thou), 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 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 kill | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 kill | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 kill | cc |
| 4 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 kill | nsubj |
| 5 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 4 thou | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thou | punct |
| 7 | canst | can | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 8 kill | aux |
| 8 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Worm | det |
| 10 | Worm | worm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kill | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | can | Thou | the Worm | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worm=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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