English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 32
Then Childe Rowland out with his good brand, that never struck in vain, and off went the cow-herd's head.
Who acts: Childe Rowland, Childe · What happens: not strike, go, brand · To what, where: that, vain, head
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 Rowland, 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 | 12 struck | advmod |
| 2 | Childe | Childe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Rowland | compound |
| 3 | Rowland | Rowland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 struck | nsubj |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 Rowland | compound:prt |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 brand | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 brand | nmod:poss |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 brand | amod |
| 8 | brand | brand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Rowland | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 struck | punct |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 struck | obj |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 struck | advmod |
| 12 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 vain | case |
| 14 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 struck | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 17 | off | off | ADV | _ | 18 went | advmod |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 struck | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 herd | det |
| 20 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 herd | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 cow | punct |
| 22 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 head | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 herd | case |
| 24 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not strike | past | Childe Rowland with Childe's good brand | that | vain | then | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient | ||
| 2 | go | past | Childe Rowland with Childe's good brand not said here | the cow herd's head | off property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=Theme | |||
| 3 | brand | Childe | nom brand «communication transitive»: poss=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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