More English Fairy Tales, LXVIII. the Children in the Wood, sentence 11
The ruffians were appropriately named Rawbones and Woudkill.
What happens: name · To what, where: ruffians
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: 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 ruffians | det |
| 2 | ruffians | ruffian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 named | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 named | aux:pass |
| 4 | appropriately | appropriately | ADV | _ | 5 named | advmod |
| 5 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | Rawbones | Rawbones | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 named | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Woudkill | cc |
| 8 | Woudkill | Woudkill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Rawbones | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 named | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | past · passive | the ruffians | appropriately property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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