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More English Fairy Tales, LXVIII. the Children in the Wood, sentence 10

Androgus was the wicked uncle, Pisaurus his brother who married Eugenia, and their children in the wood were Cassander and little Kate.

Who acts: Androgus, Pisaurus brother, children · What happens: be, marry · To what, where: wicked uncle, Eugenia, Cassander

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXVIII. the Children in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Androgus, Pisaurus brother, children), 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

nsubjcopdetamodpunctcompoundnmod:possconjnsubjacl:relclobjpunctccnmod:possnsubjcasedetnmodcopparataxisccamodconjpunctrootAndrogusPROPNwasAUXtheDETwickedADJuncleNOUN,PUNCTPisaurusPROPNhisPRONbrotherNOUNwhoPRONmarriedVERBEugeniaPROPN,PUNCTandCCONJtheirPRONchildrenNOUNinADPtheDETwoodNOUNwereAUXCassanderPROPNandCCONJlittleADJKatePROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AndrogusAndrogusPROPNNumber=Sing5 unclensubj
2wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 unclecop
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 uncledet
4wickedwickedADJDegree=Pos5 uncleamod
5uncleuncleNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
6,,PUNCT_9 brotherpunct
7PisaurusPisaurusPROPNNumber=Sing9 brothercompound
8hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs9 brothernmod:poss
9brotherbrotherNOUNNumber=Sing5 uncleconj
10whowhoPRONPronType=Rel11 marriednsubj
11marriedmarryVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 brotheracl:relcl
12EugeniaEugeniaPROPNNumber=Sing11 marriedobj
13,,PUNCT_16 childrenpunct
14andandCCONJ_16 childrencc
15theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs16 childrennmod:poss
16childrenchildNOUNNumber=Plur21 Cassandernsubj
17ininADP_19 woodcase
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 wooddet
19woodwoodNOUNNumber=Sing16 childrennmod
20werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 Cassandercop
21CassanderCassanderPROPNNumber=Sing5 uncleparataxis
22andandCCONJ_24 Katecc
23littlelittleADJDegree=Pos24 Kateamod
24KateKatePROPNNumber=Sing21 Cassanderconj
25..PUNCT_5 unclepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is apastAndrogusthe wicked uncle and Androgus's Pisaurus brothertree rules
2marrypastAndrogus's Pisaurus brotherEugeniavn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eugenia=Patient
3is apastuncle's children in the woodCassander and little Katetree 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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