More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 140
The Childe swore as the Wise Woman bid, and went his way to the smithy.
Who acts: Childe · What happens: swear, go · To what, where: way
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 (Childe), 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 | 2 Childe | det |
| 2 | Childe | Childe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 swore | nsubj |
| 3 | swore | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 bid | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bid | det |
| 6 | Wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bid | amod |
| 7 | Woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bid | compound |
| 8 | bid | bid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 swore | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 swore | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 way | nmod:poss |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 smithy | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 smithy | det |
| 16 | smithy | smithy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 swore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear | past | the Childe | as the Wise Woman bid | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the Childe not said here | Childe's way | to the smithy | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=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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