English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 1
Childe Rowland and his brothers twain Were playing at the ball, And there was their sister Burd Ellen In the midst, among them all.
Who acts: Childe twain · What happens: play, be · To what, where: ball
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Childe Rowland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Childe twain), 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 | Childe | Childe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 twain | compound |
| 2 | Rowland | Rowland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Childe | flat |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 brothers | cc |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 5 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Childe | conj |
| 6 | twain | twain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 playing | nsubj |
| 7 | Were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 playing | aux |
| 8 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 ball | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ball | det |
| 11 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 playing | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 was | punct |
| 13 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 was | cc |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 was | expl |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 them | cop |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 sister | nmod:poss |
| 17 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 was | nsubj |
| 18 | Burd | Burd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 sister | appos |
| 19 | Ellen | Ellen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Burd | flat |
| 20 | In | in | ADP | _ | 22 midst | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 midst | det |
| 22 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sister | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 them | punct |
| 24 | among | among | ADP | _ | 25 them | case |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 playing | obl |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 playing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past · progressive | Childe twain | the ball | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | among brothers = brother; all nmod:unmarked | 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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