English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 19
So Childe Rowland said good-bye to the good queen, his mother, and went to the cave of the Warlock Merlin.
Who acts: Childe · What happens: say, go · To what, where: good bye, good queen, cave · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | Childe | Childe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 3 | Rowland | Rowland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Childe | flat |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bye | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 good | punct |
| 7 | bye | bye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 queen | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 queen | det |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 queen | amod |
| 11 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 mother | punct |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 mother | nmod:poss |
| 14 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 queen | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 cave | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cave | det |
| 20 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Merlin | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Merlin | det |
| 23 | Warlock | Warlock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Merlin | compound |
| 24 | Merlin | Merlin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 cave | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Childe | good bye | the good queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bye=Topic to queen=Recipient | |||
| 2 | go | past | Childe not said here | the cave of the Warlock Merlin | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cave=Initial_Location |
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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