English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 3
Burd Ellen round about the aisle To seek the ball is gone, But long they waited, and longer still, And she came not back again.
Who acts: Burd, brothers · What happens: seek, be, wait, not come back · To what, where: ball
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 (Burd, brothers), 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 | Burd | Burd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 gone | nsubj |
| 2 | Ellen | Ellen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Burd | flat |
| 3 | round | round | ADV | _ | 6 aisle | advmod |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 aisle | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 aisle | det |
| 6 | aisle | aisle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Burd | appos |
| 7 | To | to | PART | _ | 8 seek | mark |
| 8 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 aisle | acl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ball | det |
| 10 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seek | obj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 gone | cop |
| 12 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 waited | punct |
| 14 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 waited | cc |
| 15 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 waited | advmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 waited | nsubj |
| 17 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 gone | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 longer | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 longer | cc |
| 20 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 waited | advmod |
| 21 | still | still | ADV | _ | 20 longer | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 came | punct |
| 23 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 came | cc |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 came | nsubj |
| 25 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 waited | conj |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 came | advmod |
| 27 | back | back | ADV | _ | 25 came | advmod |
| 28 | again | again | ADV | _ | 25 came | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | to-infinitive | Burd not said here | the ball | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Burd | gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wait | past | brothers = brother | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not come back | past | Burd | 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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