English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 81

“O yonder sits my father, the king, Binnorie, O Binnorie; And yonder sits my mother, the queen; By the bonny mill-dams o' Binnorie,

What happens: sit · To what, where: father, mother

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: 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 sits	punct
2	O	o	INTJ	_	4 sits	discourse
3	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	4 sits	advmod
4	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 father	nmod:poss
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sits	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 king	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 father	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Binnorie	punct
11	Binnorie	Binnorie	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 father	appos
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Binnorie	punct
13	O	O	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Binnorie	compound
14	Binnorie	Binnorie	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Binnorie	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 sits	punct
16	And	and	CCONJ	_	18 sits	cc
17	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	18 sits	advmod
18	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sits	conj
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 mother	nmod:poss
20	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sits	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 queen	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 queen	det
23	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 mother	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 dams	punct
25	By	by	ADP	_	30 dams	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 dams	det
27	bonny	bonny	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 dams	compound
28	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 dams	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 mill	punct
30	dams	dam	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sits	obl
31	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	33 Binnorie	case
32	'	'	PUNCT	_	33 Binnorie	punct
33	Binnorie	Binnorie	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 dams	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sits	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit in a quote	present		my father				by the bonny mill dams of Binnorie; yonder property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent father=Theme by dam=Location
2	sit in a quote	present		my mother and the queen				yonder property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mother=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: «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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