English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 75
So he made a harp out of her breast-bone and her hair, and travelled on up the hill from the mill-dam of Binnorie, till he came to the castle of the king her father.
Who acts: harper · What happens: make, travel, come · To what, where: harp, breast bone, hill, castle
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack Hannaford. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (harper), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 made | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 harp | det |
| 5 | harp | harp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 bone | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 bone | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 bone | nmod:poss |
| 9 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bone | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 breast | punct |
| 11 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 hair | cc |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hair | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bone | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 travelled | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 travelled | cc |
| 17 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 hill | case |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 hill | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 hill | det |
| 21 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 travelled | obl |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 dam | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 dam | det |
| 24 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 dam | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 mill | punct |
| 26 | dam | dam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 travelled | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Binnorie | case |
| 28 | Binnorie | Binnorie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 dam | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 came | punct |
| 30 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 32 came | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 came | nsubj |
| 32 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 travelled | conj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 castle | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 castle | det |
| 35 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 came | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 king | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 king | det |
| 38 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 castle | nmod |
| 39 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 father | nmod:poss |
| 40 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 king | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | harper | a harp | BINNORIE's breast bone and BINNORIE's hair | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harp=Product | |||
| 2 | travel | past | harper not said here | the hill | from the mill dam of Binnorie | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hill=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | come | past | harper | the castle of the king BINNORIE's father | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial_Location |
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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