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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Androgus | Androgus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 uncle | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 uncle | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 uncle | det |
| 4 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 uncle | amod |
| 5 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 brother | punct |
| 7 | Pisaurus | Pisaurus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 brother | compound |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 brother | nmod:poss |
| 9 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 uncle | conj |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 married | nsubj |
| 11 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 brother | acl:relcl |
| 12 | Eugenia | Eugenia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 married | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 children | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 children | cc |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 children | nmod:poss |
| 16 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 Cassander | nsubj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 wood | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wood | det |
| 19 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 children | nmod |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 Cassander | cop |
| 21 | Cassander | Cassander | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 uncle | parataxis |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 Kate | cc |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Kate | amod |
| 24 | Kate | Kate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Cassander | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 uncle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Androgus | the wicked uncle and Androgus's Pisaurus brother | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | marry | past | Androgus's Pisaurus brother | Eugenia | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eugenia=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | uncle's children in the wood | Cassander and little Kate | 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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