English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 83

Then they all wondered, and the harper told them how he had seen the princess lying drowned on the bank near the bonny mill-dams o' Binnorie, and how he had afterwards made this harp out of her hair and breast-bone.

Who acts: dams, harper, princess · What happens: wonder, tell, see, lie, drown, make · To what, where: dams, princess, bank, harp, hair · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (dams, harper, princess), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 wondered	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wondered	nsubj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 wondered	advmod
4	wondered	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 told	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 told	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 harper	det
8	harper	harper	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	nsubj
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wondered	parataxis
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 told	iobj
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 seen	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 seen	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 seen	aux
14	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 told	ccomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 princess	det
16	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 seen	obj
17	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 princess	acl
18	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 lying	xcomp
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 bank	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bank	det
21	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 drowned	obl
22	near	near	ADP	_	27 dams	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 dams	det
24	bonny	bonny	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dams	compound
25	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dams	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 mill	punct
27	dams	dam	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 drowned	obl
28	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	30 Binnorie	case
29	'	'	PUNCT	_	30 Binnorie	punct
30	Binnorie	Binnorie	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 dams	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 made	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 made	cc
33	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	37 made	advmod
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 made	nsubj
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 made	aux
36	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	37 made	advmod
37	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 wondered	conj
38	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	39 harp	det
39	harp	harp	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 made	obj
40	out	out	ADP	_	43 hair	case
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 hair	case
42	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 hair	nmod:poss
43	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 harp	nmod
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 bone	cc
45	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 bone	compound
46	-	-	PUNCT	_	45 breast	punct
47	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 hair	conj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wondered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	past	dams = dam				then		vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	tell speech: assert	past	the harper		dams = dam				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
3	see	past · perfect	harper	the princess					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus
4	lie	gerund	the princess not said here						tree rules
5	drown	participle	the princess not said here			the bank		near the bonny mill dams of Binnorie	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	make	past · perfect	harper	this harp		BINNORIE's hair and breast bone		afterwards property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harp=Product

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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