English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 77
And they reached home, and the good queen, their mother, and Burd Ellen never went round a church widershins again.
Who acts: souls, Burd · What happens: reach, not go · To what, where: good queen, church widershins
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 (souls, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 reached | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 reached | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 queen | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 queen | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 queen | det |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 queen | amod |
| 9 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 mother | punct |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 queen | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 15 | Burd | Burd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 went | nsubj |
| 16 | Ellen | Ellen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Burd | flat |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 went | advmod |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reached | conj |
| 19 | round | round | ADP | _ | 22 widershins | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 widershins | det |
| 21 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 widershins | compound |
| 22 | widershins | widershin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 went | obl |
| 23 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 went | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | souls = soul | the good queen | home property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | not go | past | Burd | a church widershins | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round widershin=Initial_Location |
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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