More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 56
The chief mourner seized and punished him, and bade him repeat:
Who acts: chief mourner · What happens: seize, punish, repeat · To what, where: mourner, bade
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 (chief mourner), 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 | 3 mourner | det |
| 2 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mourner | amod |
| 3 | mourner | mourner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seized | nsubj |
| 4 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 punished | cc |
| 6 | punished | punish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seized | conj |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 punished | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 repeat | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 repeat | cc |
| 10 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 repeat | obl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 bade | obj |
| 12 | repeat | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 seized | conj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | the chief mourner | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | punish | past | the chief mourner not said here | mourner | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 3 | repeat | present | the chief mourner not said here | bade | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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