More English Fairy Tales, LXXXV. the Lambton Worm, sentence 12
1761, reaches Sir John Lambton, Knight of Rhodes, and several instances of violent death occur in the interim.
Who acts: 1761, several instances · What happens: reach, occur, instance · To what, where: John, interim, violent death
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXV. the Lambton Worm. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (1761, several instances), 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 | 1761 | 1761 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 reaches | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 reaches | punct |
| 3 | reaches | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 John | nmod:desc |
| 5 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 reaches | obj |
| 6 | Lambton | Lambton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 John | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Knight | punct |
| 8 | Knight | Knight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 John | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Rhodes | case |
| 10 | Rhodes | Rhode | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 Knight | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 occur | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 occur | cc |
| 13 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 instances | amod |
| 14 | instances | instance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 occur | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 death | case |
| 16 | violent | violent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 death | amod |
| 17 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 instances | nmod |
| 18 | occur | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 reaches | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 interim | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 interim | det |
| 21 | interim | interim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 occur | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reaches | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | present | 1761 | John Sir and Knight of Rhodes | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent john=Theme | ||||
| 2 | occur | present | several instances of violent death | the interim | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in interim=Location | ||||
| 3 | instance | violent death | nom instance «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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