English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 64
Burd Ellen looked at Childe Rowland sadly, and shook her head, but she was under a spell, and could not warn him.
Who acts: Burd · What happens: look, shake, be, not warn · To what, where: head, spell, 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 (Burd), 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 | Burd | Burd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | Ellen | Ellen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Burd | flat |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 Childe | case |
| 5 | Childe | Childe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 6 | Rowland | Rowland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Childe | flat |
| 7 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 3 looked | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 shook | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 shook | cc |
| 10 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 head | nmod:poss |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shook | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 spell | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 spell | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 spell | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 spell | cop |
| 17 | under | under | ADP | _ | 19 spell | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 spell | det |
| 19 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shook | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 warn | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 warn | cc |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 warn | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 warn | advmod |
| 24 | warn | warn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 shook | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 warn | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Burd | at Childe; sadly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at childe=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shake | past | Burd not said here | Burd's head | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Burd | a spell | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not warn speech: warn | could | Burd not said here | Childe | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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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