English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 63
He was well known in Arthur's court, Where he afforded gallant sport; He rode at tilt and tournament, And on a mouse a-hunting went.
Who acts: Arthur, hunting · What happens: know, afford, ride, go · To what, where: Arthur, court, gallant sport, tilt
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The History of Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Arthur, hunting), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 known | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 known | aux:pass |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 known | advmod |
| 4 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 court | case |
| 6 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 court | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Arthur | case |
| 8 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 known | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 afforded | punct |
| 10 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 afforded | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 afforded | nsubj |
| 12 | afforded | afford | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 court | acl:relcl |
| 13 | gallant | gallant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sport | amod |
| 14 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 afforded | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 rode | punct |
| 16 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 rode | nsubj |
| 17 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 known | parataxis |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 tilt | case |
| 19 | tilt | tilt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rode | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 tournament | cc |
| 21 | tournament | tournament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tilt | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 went | punct |
| 23 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 went | cc |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 mouse | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 mouse | det |
| 26 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 went | obl |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 hunting | det |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 a | punct |
| 29 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 went | nsubj |
| 30 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 rode | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past · passive | Arthur | Arthur's court | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | afford | past | Arthur | gallant sport | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ride | past | Arthur | tilt and tournament | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | go | past | a hunting | on a mouse | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on mouse=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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