More English Fairy Tales, XLIV. the Pied Piper, sentence 19
There firm and instant closed the greedy Womb, Where wide-born Thousands met a common Tomb.
Who acts: firm, born Thousands · What happens: close, bear, meet · To what, where: greedy Womb, common Tomb
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLIV. the Pied Piper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (firm, born Thousands), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 closed | expl |
| 2 | firm | firm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 closed | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 instant | cc |
| 4 | instant | instant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 firm | conj |
| 5 | closed | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Womb | det |
| 7 | greedy | greedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Womb | amod |
| 8 | Womb | Womb | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 closed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 met | punct |
| 10 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 met | advmod |
| 11 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 born | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 wide | punct |
| 13 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 Thousands | amod |
| 14 | Thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 met | nsubj |
| 15 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Womb | acl:relcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 Tomb | det |
| 17 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Tomb | amod |
| 18 | Tomb | Tomb | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 met | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 closed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | past | firm | the greedy Womb | there | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent womb=Patient | |||
| 2 | bear | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | meet | past | born Thousands | a common Tomb | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tomb=Co-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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