More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 11
This was the signal to the Hall, where the servants and the old lord had shut themselves in to pray for the Childe's success.
Who acts: This, servants · What happens: be, shut, pray · To what, where: signal, servants
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 (This, servants), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 signal | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 signal | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 signal | det |
| 4 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Hall | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Hall | det |
| 7 | Hall | Hall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 signal | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 shut | punct |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 shut | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 servants | det |
| 11 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 shut | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lord | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 lord | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 lord | amod |
| 15 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 servants | conj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 shut | aux |
| 17 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 Hall | acl:relcl |
| 18 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 shut | obj |
| 19 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 21 pray | mark |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 pray | mark |
| 21 | pray | pray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 shut | advcl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 success | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Childe | det |
| 24 | Childe | Childe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 success | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 Childe | case |
| 26 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pray | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 signal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | the signal | to the Hall | tree rules | |||
| 2 | shut | past · perfect | the servants and the old lord | servants = servant | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient | ||||
| 3 | pray | to-infinitive | the servants and the old lord not said here | for the Childe's success | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for success=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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