English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 80
But they sent for the hen-wife and put her to death.
Who acts: king · What happens: send, put · To what, where: daughter
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Nix Nought Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 sent | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 wife | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wife | det |
| 6 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wife | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 hen | punct |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 put | cc |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sent | conj |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 put | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 death | case |
| 13 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | king | for the hen wife | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | king not said here | daughter | to death | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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