English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 14
But long they waited, and longer still, With muckle doubt and pain, And woe were his mother's and brother's heart, For he came not back again.
Who acts: brothers, woe, mother, Merlin · What happens: wait, be, heart, not come back
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 (brothers, woe, mother, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 waited | cc |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 waited | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 waited | nsubj |
| 4 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 still | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 still | cc |
| 7 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 still | advmod |
| 8 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 waited | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 doubt | punct |
| 10 | With | with | ADP | _ | 12 doubt | case |
| 11 | muckle | muckle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 doubt | compound |
| 12 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 waited | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 pain | cc |
| 14 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 doubt | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 heart | punct |
| 16 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 heart | cc |
| 17 | woe | woe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 mother | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 mother | cop |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 mother | nmod:poss |
| 20 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 heart | nsubj |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 mother | case |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 brother | cc |
| 23 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 heart | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 brother | case |
| 25 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 waited | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 came | punct |
| 27 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 29 came | mark |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 came | nsubj |
| 29 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 waited | conj |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 came | advmod |
| 31 | back | back | ADV | _ | 29 came | advmod |
| 32 | again | again | ADV | _ | 29 came | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | brothers = brother | still | with muckle doubt and pain; long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | woe | 's Merlin's mother | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | heart | Merlin's mother | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | not come back | past | Merlin | again | 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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