More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 82
This was too much for Master One-eye, who grabbed him and chastised him, bidding him call:
Who acts: This, One eye · What happens: be, grab, chastise, bid, call · To what, where: other · 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 (This, One eye), 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 | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 much | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 much | cop |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 much | advmod |
| 4 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 eye | case |
| 6 | Master | master | PUNCT | _ | 9 eye | punct |
| 7 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 eye | nummod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 One | punct |
| 9 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 much | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 grabbed | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 grabbed | nsubj |
| 12 | grabbed | grab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 eye | acl:relcl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 grabbed | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 chastised | cc |
| 15 | chastised | chastise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 grabbed | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 chastised | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 bidding | punct |
| 18 | bidding | bid | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 chastised | advcl |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 bidding | obj |
| 20 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 bidding | xcomp |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 much | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | This | for One eye; much property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grab | past | One eye | other | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | chastise | past | One eye not said here | other | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bid | gerund | One eye not said here | other | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | call | infinitive | One eye not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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