English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, sentence 34
So Molly took the sword to the king, and her sister was married to his son.
Who acts: Molly · What happens: take, marry · To what, where: sword, king, sister
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Molly Whuppie. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Molly), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | Molly | Molly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sword | det |
| 5 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 king | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 married | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 married | cc |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sister | nmod:poss |
| 12 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 married | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 married | aux:pass |
| 14 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 took | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 son | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 son | nmod:poss |
| 17 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 married | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Molly | the sword | the king | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sword=Theme to king=Destination | |||
| 2 | marry | past · passive | Molly's sister | to sword's son | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to son=Co-Patient |
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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