More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 15
This time the servants remembered, and released Boris, who came bounding to his young master.
Who acts: servants, Boris · What happens: remember, release, come, bound · To what, where: Boris, young master
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 (servants, Boris), 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 | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 remembered | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 servants | det |
| 4 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 remembered | nsubj |
| 5 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 released | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 released | cc |
| 8 | released | release | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 remembered | conj |
| 9 | Boris | Boris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 released | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Boris | acl:relcl |
| 13 | bounding | bound | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 came | xcomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 master | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 master | nmod:poss |
| 16 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 master | amod |
| 17 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bounding | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 remembered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | past | the servants | time | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | release | past | the servants not said here | Boris | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer boris=Source | ||||
| 3 | come | past | Boris | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | bound | gerund | Boris not said here | Boris's young master | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to master=Destination |
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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