English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 59
“Hear ye this, my youngest brother, Why didn't ye bide at home?
Who acts: you, ye · What happens: hear, not bide · To what, where: ye, home
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 (you, ye), 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 | _ | 2 Hear | punct |
| 2 | Hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 Hear | obj |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 ye | det |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 brother | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 brother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 brother | amod |
| 8 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Hear | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bide | punct |
| 10 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 bide | advmod |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 bide | aux |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 bide | advmod |
| 13 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 bide | nsubj |
| 14 | bide | bide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Hear | conj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 home | case |
| 16 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bide | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear in a quote | imperative | you not said here | ye | my youngest brother obl | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer ye=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | not bide in a quote | past · do-support | ye | home | 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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