English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 10
And after he had been taught, and had repeated his lesson, he set out for Elfland.
Who acts: Merlin · What happens: teach, repeat, set out · To what, where: Merlin, lesson
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 (Merlin), 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 | _ | 15 set | cc |
| 2 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 6 taught | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 taught | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 taught | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 taught | aux:pass |
| 6 | taught | teach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 set | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 repeated | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 repeated | cc |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 repeated | aux |
| 10 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 taught | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 lesson | nmod:poss |
| 12 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 repeated | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 taught | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 set | nsubj |
| 15 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 set | compound:prt |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 Elfland | case |
| 18 | Elfland | Elfland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 set | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | past · perfect · passive | Merlin | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | repeat | past · perfect | Merlin's lesson | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | set out | past | Merlin | for Elfland | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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