English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 21
“Well, my son,” said the Warlock Merlin, “there are but two things, simple they may seem, but hard they are to do.
Who acts: son, man · What happens: say, seem, be, do · 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 (son, man), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 son | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Merlin | det |
| 10 | Warlock | Warlock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Merlin | compound |
| 11 | Merlin | Merlin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 are | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 are | punct |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 are | expl |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 Merlin | acl:relcl |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 things | cc |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 things | nummod |
| 18 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 Merlin | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 simple | punct |
| 20 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 things | amod |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 seem | nsubj |
| 22 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 seem | aux |
| 23 | seem | seem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 simple | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 hard | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 hard | cc |
| 26 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | conj |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 hard | nsubj |
| 28 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 hard | cop |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 do | mark |
| 30 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 hard | xcomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | my son | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | seem in a quote | may | man | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | man | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | man not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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