More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 107
Shortly after this decree was published, news of it reached the ears of the nobleman's sons, and the two clever ones determined to have a trial, but they were sadly at a loss to prevent their idiot brother from going with them.
Who acts: news, sons · What happens: publish, reach, determine, have, be, prevent · To what, where: decree, ears, two clever ones, trial, loss, idiot brother
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 (news, sons), 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 | Shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 8 news | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 6 published | mark |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 decree | det |
| 4 | decree | decree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 published | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 published | aux:pass |
| 6 | published | publish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Shortly | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Shortly | punct |
| 8 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reached | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 news | nmod |
| 11 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ears | det |
| 13 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 reached | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 sons | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 nobleman | det |
| 16 | nobleman | nobleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sons | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 nobleman | case |
| 18 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 ears | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ones | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 ones | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 ones | det |
| 22 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 ones | nummod |
| 23 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 ones | amod |
| 24 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 reached | obl |
| 25 | determined | determine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 ones | acl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 have | mark |
| 27 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 determined | xcomp |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 trial | det |
| 29 | trial | trial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 have | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 loss | punct |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 37 loss | cc |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 loss | nsubj |
| 33 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 loss | cop |
| 34 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 37 loss | advmod |
| 35 | at | at | ADP | _ | 37 loss | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 loss | det |
| 37 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reached | obl |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 prevent | mark |
| 39 | prevent | prevent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 loss | acl |
| 40 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 brother | nmod:poss |
| 41 | idiot | idiot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 brother | compound |
| 42 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 prevent | obj |
| 43 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 44 going | mark |
| 44 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 prevent | advcl |
| 45 | with | with | ADP | _ | 46 them | case |
| 46 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 going | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | publish | past · passive | this decree | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | |||||
| 2 | reach | past | news of decease | the ears of the nobleman's sons | the two clever ones obl | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ear=Theme | |||
| 3 | determine | participle | the two clever ones not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | have | to-infinitive | a trial | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trial=Patient | |||||
| 5 | is | past | sons = son | a loss | sadly property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | prevent | to-infinitive | news of decease not said here | sons's idiot brother | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer brother=Theme | ||||
| 7 | go | gerund | news of decease not said here | with sons = son | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary |
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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