More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 142
Then he passed his vigils in Brugeford Chapel, and at dawn of day took his post on the Worm's Rock in the River Wear.
Who acts: armour · What happens: pass, take · To what, where: vigils, Brugeford Chapel, post, Rock
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 (armour), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 passed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 vigils | nmod:poss |
| 5 | vigils | vigil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 passed | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Chapel | case |
| 7 | Brugeford | Brugeford | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Chapel | compound |
| 8 | Chapel | Chapel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 took | cc |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 dawn | case |
| 12 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 day | case |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dawn | nmod |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 post | nmod:poss |
| 17 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 Rock | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Worm | det |
| 20 | Worm | worm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Rock | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 Worm | case |
| 22 | Rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 Wear | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Wear | det |
| 25 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Wear | compound |
| 26 | Wear | Wear | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | armour | armour's vigils | Brugeford Chapel | then | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent vigil=Theme in chapel=Destination | ||
| 2 | take | past | armour not said here | armour's post | the Worm's Rock | dawn | in the River Wear | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent post=Theme on rock=Destination |
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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