More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 10
The Childe of Lambton swam ashore, and raising his bugle to his lips, sounded its note thrice.
Who acts: Childe · What happens: swim, raise, sound · To what, where: bugle, lips, note thrice
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Childe), 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 Childe | det |
| 2 | Childe | Childe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 swam | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Lambton | case |
| 4 | Lambton | Lambton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Childe | nmod |
| 5 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | ashore | ashore | ADV | _ | 5 swam | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 raising | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 raising | cc |
| 9 | raising | raise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 swam | advcl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 bugle | nmod:poss |
| 11 | bugle | bugle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 raising | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 lips | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 lips | nmod:poss |
| 14 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 raising | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sounded | punct |
| 16 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 swam | conj |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 thrice | nmod:poss |
| 18 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 thrice | compound |
| 19 | thrice | thrice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sounded | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 swam | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim | past | the Childe of Lambton | ashore property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | raise | gerund | the Childe of Lambton not said here | Childe's bugle | Childe's lips | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bugle=Theme to lip=Destination | |||
| 3 | sound | past | the Childe of Lambton not said here | bugle's note thrice | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thrice=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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