More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 86
The people here thought it was he who had set the place a-blazing, and straightway put him in prison.
Who acts: people, straightway · What happens: think, set, put · To what, where: side, other, prison · 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 (people, straightway), 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 | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 people | advmod |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 set | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 set | aux:pass |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 set | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 set | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 set | aux |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 place | det |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 set | obj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 blazing | det |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 a | punct |
| 15 | blazing | blazing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 set | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 put | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 put | cc |
| 18 | straightway | straightway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 put | nsubj |
| 19 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 put | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 prison | case |
| 22 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 put | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the people | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | set | past · perfect · passive | side | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | put | past | straightway | other | prison | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in prison=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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