English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 30
Then, without a word more, Childe Rowland drew the good brand that never struck in vain, and off went the horse-herd's head, and Childe Rowland went on further, till he came to the cow-herd, and asked him the same question.
Who acts: word, Childe · What happens: draw, not strike, go, go on, come, ask · To what, where: good brand, vain, head, cow herd, same question, Childe
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 (word, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 drew | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | without | without | ADP | _ | 5 word | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 word | det |
| 5 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drew | nsubj |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 word | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Childe | punct |
| 8 | Childe | Childe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 word | appos |
| 9 | Rowland | Rowland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Childe | flat |
| 10 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 brand | det |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 brand | amod |
| 13 | brand | brand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drew | obj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 struck | obj |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 struck | advmod |
| 16 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 brand | acl:relcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 vain | case |
| 18 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 struck | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 went | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 went | cc |
| 21 | off | off | ADV | _ | 22 went | advmod |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 drew | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 herd | det |
| 24 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 herd | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 horse | punct |
| 26 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 head | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 herd | case |
| 28 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 went | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 went | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 went | cc |
| 31 | Childe | Childe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 went | nsubj |
| 32 | Rowland | Rowland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Childe | flat |
| 33 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 drew | conj |
| 34 | on | on | ADV | _ | 33 went | advmod |
| 35 | further | further | ADV | _ | 33 went | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 came | punct |
| 37 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 39 came | mark |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 came | nsubj |
| 39 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 went | conj |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 herd | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 herd | det |
| 42 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 herd | compound |
| 43 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 cow | punct |
| 44 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 came | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 asked | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 asked | cc |
| 47 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 drew | conj |
| 48 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 asked | iobj |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 question | det |
| 50 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 question | amod |
| 51 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 asked | obj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | a word | the good brand | then | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brand=Theme | |||
| 2 | not strike | past | the good brand | vain | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient | ||||
| 3 | go | past | a word not said here | the horse herd's head | off property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=Theme | |||
| 4 | go on | past | Childe | further property | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | come | past | Childe | the cow herd | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to herd=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | ask speech: ask | past | a word not said here | the same question | Childe | tree rules |
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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