English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 73
“I grant thee mercy,” said Childe Rowland, “release my sister from thy spells and raise my brothers to life, and let us all go free, and thou shalt be spared.”
Who acts: Childe, thee, thy · What happens: grant, mercy, say, release, raise, let · To what, where: sister, spells, brothers, life, us, thou · 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 (Childe, thee, thy), 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 | _ | 3 grant | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 grant | nsubj |
| 3 | grant | grant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 mercy | nsubj |
| 5 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grant | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 grant | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 grant | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Childe | Childe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | Rowland | Rowland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Childe | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 release | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 release | punct |
| 13 | release | release | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | parataxis |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 sister | nmod:poss |
| 15 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 release | obj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 spells | case |
| 17 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 spells | nmod:poss |
| 18 | spells | spell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 release | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 raise | cc |
| 20 | raise | raise | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 release | conj |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 22 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 raise | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 life | case |
| 24 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 raise | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 let | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 let | cc |
| 27 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 release | conj |
| 28 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 let | obj |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 go | advmod |
| 30 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 let | advcl |
| 31 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 go | xcomp |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 spared | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 spared | cc |
| 34 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 37 spared | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 37 spared | aux |
| 36 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 spared | aux:pass |
| 37 | spared | spare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 said | ccomp |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 37 spared | punct |
| 39 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 spared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grant in a quote | present | Childe | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | mercy in a quote | thee | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Childe | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | release in a quote | infinitive | my sister | thy spells | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer sister=Source | ||||
| 5 | raise in a quote | infinitive | my brothers | life | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent brother=Theme to life=Destination | ||||
| 6 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | |||||
| 7 | go in a quote | present | free property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | spare in a quote | shall · passive | thou | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: subject=Asset | |||||
| 9 | spell in a quote | thy | nom spell «state 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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