More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 8
Once more the head and the remainder of the body encircled the Childe, but with less force, and the spear-heads did their work.
Who acts: head, spear heads, heads · What happens: encircle, do, work · To what, where: Childe, work
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 (head, spear heads, heads), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 more | advmod |
| 2 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 encircled | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 head | det |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 encircled | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 remainder | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 remainder | det |
| 7 | remainder | remainder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 head | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 body | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 body | det |
| 10 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 remainder | nmod |
| 11 | encircled | encircle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Childe | det |
| 13 | Childe | Childe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 encircled | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 force | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 force | cc |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 force | case |
| 17 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 force | amod |
| 18 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 encircled | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 did | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 did | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 heads | det |
| 22 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 heads | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 spear | punct |
| 24 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 did | nsubj |
| 25 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 encircled | conj |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 work | nmod:poss |
| 27 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 did | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 encircled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | encircle | past | the head and the remainder of the body | the Childe | with less force | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent childe=Destination with force=Theme | |||
| 2 | do | past | the spear heads | heads's work | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | work | heads = head | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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