English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 25
Well, who should be there but her master's son, and what should he do but fall in love with her the minute he set eyes on her.
Who acts: gentleman · What happens: be, do, fall, set · To what, where: love, eyes
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Cap O' Rushes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gentleman), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 there | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 there | nsubj |
| 4 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 there | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 there | cop |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 son | cc |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 master | nmod:poss |
| 9 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 son | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 master | case |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 there | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 do | cc |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 do | obj |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 do | aux |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 do | nsubj |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 there | parataxis |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 fall | cc |
| 19 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 do | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 love | case |
| 21 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fall | obl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 her | case |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 fall | obl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 minute | det |
| 25 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fall | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 set | nsubj |
| 27 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 minute | acl:relcl |
| 28 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 set | obj |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 her | case |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 set | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | should | there property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | should | gentleman | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | fall | infinitive | gentleman not said here | love | minute | with maid | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location | ||
| 4 | set | past | gentleman | eyes | on maid | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on she=Destination |
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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