More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 89
A wild young fellow was the heir of Lambton, the fine estate and hall by the side of the swift-flowing Wear.
Who acts: wild young fellow · What happens: be, flow · To what, where: heir
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 (wild young fellow), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 fellow | det |
| 2 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fellow | amod |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fellow | amod |
| 4 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heir | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 heir | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 heir | det |
| 7 | heir | heir | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Lambton | case |
| 9 | Lambton | Lambton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 heir | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 estate | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 estate | det |
| 12 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 estate | amod |
| 13 | estate | estate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heir | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 hall | cc |
| 15 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 estate | conj |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 side | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 side | det |
| 18 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 estate | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Wear | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Wear | det |
| 21 | swift | swift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 flowing | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 swift | punct |
| 23 | flowing | flow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 Wear | amod |
| 24 | Wear | wear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 side | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 heir | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a wild young fellow | the heir and the fine estate by the side of the flowing Wear and hall | of Lambton | tree rules | |||
| 2 | flow | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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