English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 62
Then they sate down together, and Childe Rowland told her all that he had done, and she told him how their two brothers had reached the Dark Tower, but had been enchanted by the King of Elfland, and lay there entombed as if dead.
Who acts: lives, Childe, Earth, King · What happens: sate down, tell, do, reach, enchant, lie · To what, where: Earth, Childe, two brothers · 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 (lives, Childe, Earth, King), 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 | 3 sate | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sate | nsubj |
| 3 | sate | sate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 sate | advmod |
| 5 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 sate | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 told | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 told | cc |
| 8 | Childe | Childe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 told | nsubj |
| 9 | Rowland | Rowland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Childe | flat |
| 10 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sate | parataxis |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 told | iobj |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 done | det:predet |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 done | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 done | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 done | aux |
| 16 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 told | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 told | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 told | cc |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 told | nsubj |
| 20 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 told | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 told | iobj |
| 22 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 reached | advmod |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 24 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 brothers | nummod |
| 25 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 reached | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 reached | aux |
| 27 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 told | ccomp |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Tower | det |
| 29 | Dark | Dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Tower | compound |
| 30 | Tower | Tower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 reached | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 enchanted | punct |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 enchanted | cc |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 enchanted | aux |
| 34 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 enchanted | aux:pass |
| 35 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 told | conj |
| 36 | by | by | ADP | _ | 38 King | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 King | det |
| 38 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 enchanted | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 Elfland | case |
| 40 | Elfland | Elfland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 King | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 lay | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 lay | cc |
| 43 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 told | conj |
| 44 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 43 lay | advmod |
| 45 | entombed | entomb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 lay | xcomp |
| 46 | as | as | ADP | _ | 48 dead | case |
| 47 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 48 dead | mark |
| 48 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 entombed | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sate down | present | lives = life | then | down, together property | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Instrument | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Childe | Earth | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | Childe | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | Earth | Childe | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | reach | past · perfect · passive | lives's two brothers | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary tower=Theme | |||||
| 6 | enchant | past · perfect · passive | the King of Elfland | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | lie | past | Childe not said here | there | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | entomb | participle | Childe not said here | as dead | 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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