More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 97
A courtier came riding by, and he did ask what they were seeking, and why they were so sorrowful. "
Who acts: courtier, men · What happens: come, ride by, ask, seek, be · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (courtier, men), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 courtier | det |
| 2 | courtier | courtier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 came | advcl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 riding | fixed |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ask | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ask | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 ask | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 ask | aux |
| 10 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 came | conj |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 seeking | obj |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 seeking | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 seeking | aux |
| 14 | seeking | seek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 ask | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sorrowful | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sorrowful | cc |
| 17 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 sorrowful | advmod |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 sorrowful | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 sorrowful | cop |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 sorrowful | advmod |
| 21 | sorrowful | sorrowful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 came | parataxis |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 sorrowful | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a courtier | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | ride by | gerund | a courtier not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past · do-support | courtier | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | seek | past · progressive | men = man | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | past | men = man | sorrowful property | tree rules |
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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