English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, sentence 59
So Molly took the ring to the king, and she was married to his youngest son, and she never saw the giant again.
Who acts: Molly · What happens: take, marry, not see · To what, where: ring, king, Molly, giant
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 ring | det |
| 5 | ring | ring | 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 | _ | 13 married | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 married | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 married | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 married | aux:pass |
| 13 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 took | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 son | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 son | nmod:poss |
| 16 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 son | amod |
| 17 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 married | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 saw | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 saw | cc |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 saw | nsubj |
| 21 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 22 saw | advmod |
| 22 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 giant | det |
| 24 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 saw | obj |
| 25 | again | again | ADV | _ | 22 saw | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Molly | the ring | the king | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ring=Theme to king=Destination | |||
| 2 | marry | past · passive | Molly | to king's youngest son | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to son=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | not see | past | Molly | the giant | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer giant=Stimulus |
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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