English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 52
And he got worse and worse for the love of her till he had to keep his bed.
Who acts: son · What happens: get, have, keep, love · To what, where: bed, lady
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 (son), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 got | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 got | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 worse | cc |
| 6 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 worse | conj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 love | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 love | det |
| 9 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 her | case |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 love | nmod |
| 12 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 14 had | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 had | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 keep | mark |
| 16 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 had | xcomp |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 bed | nmod:poss |
| 18 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 keep | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | son | for the love of lady; bad property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for love=Source | ||||
| 2 | have | past | son | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | keep | to-infinitive | son not said here | son's bed | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Theme | ||||
| 4 | love | lady | nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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