English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 6

“The fair Burd Ellen,” said the Warlock Merlin, “must have been carried off by the fairies, because she went round the church 'wider shins'--the opposite way to the sun. She is now in the Dark Tower of the King of Elfland; it would take the boldest knight in Christendom to bring her back.”

Who acts: fair Burd, fairies, Burd, it · What happens: say, carry off, go, be, take, bring back · To what, where: church, Dark Tower, boldest knight, Christendom, Burd · 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 (fair Burd, fairies, Burd, it), 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	_	8 said	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Burd	det
3	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Burd	amod
4	Burd	Burd	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
5	Ellen	Ellen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Burd	flat
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Burd	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 Burd	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	10 Warlock	det
10	Warlock	Warlock	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
11	Merlin	Merlin	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Warlock	flat
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 carried	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 carried	punct
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 carried	aux
15	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 carried	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 carried	aux:pass
17	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 said	conj
18	off	off	ADP	_	17 carried	compound:prt
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 fairies	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 fairies	det
21	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 carried	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 went	punct
23	because	because	SCONJ	_	25 went	mark
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 went	nsubj
25	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 carried	conj
26	round	round	ADP	_	28 church	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 church	det
28	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 went	obl
29	'	'	PUNCT	_	31 shins	punct
30	wider	wide	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 shins	amod
31	shins	shin	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 church	appos
32	'	'	PUNCT	_	31 shins	punct
33	--	--	PUNCT	_	36 way	punct
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 way	det
35	opposite	opposite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 way	amod
36	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 church	conj
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 sun.	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 sun.	det
39	sun.	sun.	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 way	nmod
40	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 Tower	nsubj
41	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 Tower	cop
42	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	46 Tower	advmod
43	in	in	ADP	_	46 Tower	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 Tower	det
45	Dark	Dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 Tower	compound
46	Tower	Tower	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 sun.	nmod
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 King	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 King	det
49	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 Tower	nmod
50	of	of	ADP	_	51 Elfland	case
51	Elfland	Elfland	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 King	nmod
52	;	;	PUNCT	_	55 take	punct
53	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 take	nsubj
54	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 take	aux
55	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 knight	det
57	boldest	bold	ADJ	Degree=Sup	58 knight	amod
58	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 take	obj
59	in	in	ADP	_	60 Christendom	case
60	Christendom	Christendom	PROPN	Number=Sing	58 knight	nmod
61	to	to	PART	_	62 bring	mark
62	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 take	advcl
63	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 bring	obj
64	back	back	ADV	_	62 bring	advmod
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	55 take	punct
66	”	"	PUNCT	_	55 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the fair Burd						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	carry off in a quote	must · perfect · passive	the fairies						vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	go in a quote	past	Burd			the church and the opposite way to the sun.			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round church=Initial_Location
4	is in a quote	present	Burd			the Dark Tower	now	of the King of Elfland	tree rules
5	take in a quote	would	it	the boldest knight		Christendom			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent knight=Value in christendom=Location
6	bring back in a quote	to-infinitive			Burd				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination

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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