More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 25
This insult went to Catskin's heart, so she went to her husband, the young lord, and told him all about her father, and begged he would go and find out what had become of her parents.
Who acts: insult, lord · What happens: go, tell, beg, find out, become · To what, where: heart, lord · 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 (insult, 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 insult | det |
| 2 | insult | insult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 heart | case |
| 5 | Catskin | Catskin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 heart | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Catskin | case |
| 7 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 husband | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 husband | nmod:poss |
| 14 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lord | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 lord | det |
| 17 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 lord | amod |
| 18 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 husband | appos |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 told | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 told | cc |
| 21 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 told | iobj |
| 23 | all | all | ADV | _ | 26 father | advmod |
| 24 | about | about | ADP | _ | 26 father | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 father | nmod:poss |
| 26 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 told | ccomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 begged | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 begged | cc |
| 29 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 go | nsubj |
| 31 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 go | aux |
| 32 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 begged | ccomp |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 find | cc |
| 34 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 go | conj |
| 35 | out | out | ADP | _ | 34 find | compound:prt |
| 36 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 38 become | nsubj |
| 37 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 become | aux |
| 38 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 find | ccomp |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 parents | case |
| 40 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 parents | nmod:poss |
| 41 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 become | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | this insult | Catskin's heart | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to heart=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | go | past | insult | to insult's husband | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to husband=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | this insult not said here | lord | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | beg speech: request | past | this insult not said here | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | go | would | lord | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | find out | infinitive | lord not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | become | past · perfect | of insult's parents | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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