English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 85
“And there sits my sister who drownèd me By the bonny mill-dams o' Binnorie.”
Who acts: sister · What happens: sit, drownè · To what, where: sister, hair
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 (sister), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 sits | cc |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 sits | expl |
| 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 sister | nmod:poss |
| 6 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sits | obj |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 drownèd | nsubj |
| 8 | drownèd | drownè | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sister | acl:relcl |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 drownèd | obj |
| 10 | By | by | ADP | _ | 15 dams | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 dams | det |
| 12 | bonny | bonny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dams | compound |
| 13 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dams | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 mill | punct |
| 15 | dams | dam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 drownèd | obl |
| 16 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 18 Binnorie | case |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 Binnorie | punct |
| 18 | Binnorie | Binnorie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 drownèd | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sits | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | 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 sister | there | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sister=Theme | ||||
| 2 | drownè in a quote | past | my sister | hair | by the bonny mill dams; of Binnorie | tree rules |
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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