More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 87
The end was, the judge put on his black cap, and condemned him to die.
Who acts: end · What happens: be, put, condemn, die · To what, where: judge, black cap, other
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 (end), 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 end | det |
| 2 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 judge | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 judge | cop |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 judge | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 judge | det |
| 6 | judge | judge | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 judge | acl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 cap | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 cap | nmod:poss |
| 10 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cap | amod |
| 11 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 condemned | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 condemned | cc |
| 14 | condemned | condemn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 judge | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 condemned | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 die | mark |
| 17 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 condemned | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 judge | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the end | the judge | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | put | participle | the judge not said here | other's black cap | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on cap=Destination | ||||
| 3 | condemn | past | the end not said here | other | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | die | to-infinitive | the end not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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