English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin, sentence 2
And she had two sons; and by-and-by it was time for the wife to send them away to seek their fortune.
Who acts: widow, farmer · What happens: have, be, send away, seek · To what, where: two sons, sons, fortune
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Red Ettin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (widow, farmer), 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 had | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 sons | nummod |
| 5 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 time | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 time | cc |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 time | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 time | cc |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 and | punct |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 time | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 time | cop |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 wife | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 wife | det |
| 18 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 time | nmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 send | mark |
| 20 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 time | acl |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 send | obj |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 send | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 seek | mark |
| 24 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 send | advcl |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 26 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 seek | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | widow | two sons | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | farmer | by time | for the wife | tree rules | |||
| 3 | send away | to-infinitive | widow not said here | sons = son | away property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 4 | seek | to-infinitive | widow not said here | sons's fortune | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme |
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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