More English Fairy Tales, LII. Tom Hickathrift, sentence 18
The name in these versions of the legend is given as Hickifric, and he is there represented as a village Hampden who withstood the tyranny of the local lord of the manor.
Who acts: village · What happens: give, represent, withstand · To what, where: name, Hickifric, tyranny
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LII. Tom Hickathrift. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (village), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 name | det |
| 2 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 given | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 versions | case |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 versions | det |
| 5 | versions | version | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 name | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 legend | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 legend | det |
| 8 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 versions | nmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 given | aux:pass |
| 10 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 Hickifric | case |
| 12 | Hickifric | Hickifric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 given | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 represented | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 represented | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 represented | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 represented | aux:pass |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 represented | advmod |
| 18 | represented | represent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 given | conj |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 village | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 village | det |
| 21 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 represented | obl |
| 22 | Hampden | Hampden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 village | appos |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 withstood | nsubj |
| 24 | withstood | withstand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 village | acl:relcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 tyranny | det |
| 26 | tyranny | tyranny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 withstood | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 lord | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 lord | det |
| 29 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 lord | amod |
| 30 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 tyranny | nmod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 manor | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 manor | det |
| 33 | manor | manor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 lord | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | the name in this versions of the legend | as Hickifric | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | represent | present · passive | Hickifric | there | as a village | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as village=Attribute | |||
| 3 | withstand | past | a village | the tyranny of the local lord of the manor | 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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