More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 31
Then the young lord told him what had happened to Catskin, and took him to the inn, and brought his father-in-law to his own castle, where they lived happy ever afterwards.
Who acts: young lord, goods · What happens: tell, happen, take, bring, live · To what, where: gentleman, Catskin, inn, father, law · 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 (young lord, goods), 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 | 5 told | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lord | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lord | amod |
| 4 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 told | nsubj |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 told | iobj |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 happened | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 happened | aux |
| 9 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 told | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Catskin | case |
| 11 | Catskin | Catskin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 happened | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 took | cc |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 told | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 took | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 inn | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 inn | det |
| 18 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 brought | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 brought | cc |
| 21 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 told | conj |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 father | nmod:poss |
| 23 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 brought | obj |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 law | punct |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 law | case |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 in | punct |
| 27 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 father | nmod |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 castle | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 castle | nmod:poss |
| 30 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 castle | amod |
| 31 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 brought | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 lived | punct |
| 33 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 35 lived | advmod |
| 34 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 lived | nsubj |
| 35 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 castle | acl:relcl |
| 36 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 lived | xcomp |
| 37 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 38 afterwards | advmod |
| 38 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 35 lived | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the young lord | gentleman | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | happen | past · perfect | Catskin | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take | past | the young lord not said here | gentleman | the inn | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to inn=Destination | |||
| 4 | bring | past | the young lord not said here | lord's father | law | to lord's own castle | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent father=Theme to castle=Destination | ||
| 5 | live | past | goods | afterwards, happy property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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