English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 15
And when they had waited and waited a good long time, Childe Rowland, the youngest of Burd Ellen's brothers, wished to go, and went to his mother, the good queen, to ask her to let him go.
Who acts: brothers, Merlin · What happens: wait, wish, go, ask, let · To what, where: brothers, mother, Merlin
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, 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 | _ | 5 waited | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 waited | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 waited | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 waited | aux |
| 5 | waited | wait | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 waited | cc |
| 7 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 waited | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 time | det |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 time | amod |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 time | amod |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 waited | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Childe | punct |
| 13 | Childe | Childe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 time | appos |
| 14 | Rowland | Rowland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Childe | flat |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 youngest | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 youngest | det |
| 17 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 waited | advcl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 brothers | case |
| 19 | Burd | Burd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Ellen | compound |
| 20 | Ellen | Ellen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 Ellen | case |
| 22 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 youngest | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 wished | punct |
| 24 | wished | wish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 brothers | acl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 go | mark |
| 26 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 wished | xcomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 went | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 went | cc |
| 29 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 waited | parataxis |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 mother | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 mother | nmod:poss |
| 32 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 went | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 queen | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 queen | det |
| 35 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 queen | amod |
| 36 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 mother | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 ask | punct |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 ask | mark |
| 39 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 went | conj |
| 40 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 ask | iobj |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 let | mark |
| 42 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 ask | xcomp |
| 43 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 let | obj |
| 44 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 let | xcomp |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past · perfect | brothers = brother | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | wait | past | brothers = brother not said here | time | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wish | participle | Burd Ellen's brothers not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | go | past | to Merlin's mother and the good queen | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mother=Initial_Location | |||||
| 6 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | mother | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | let not said to happen | to-infinitive | Merlin | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | go | infinitive | Merlin not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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