English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 64
Alive he filled the court with mirth; His death to sorrow soon gave birth.
Who acts: Alive, death, Arthur · What happens: fill, sorrow, give, die · To what, where: court, birth
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 (Alive, death, Arthur), 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 | Alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 filled | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 filled | nsubj |
| 3 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 court | det |
| 5 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 filled | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 mirth | case |
| 7 | mirth | mirth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 court | nmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 sorrow | punct |
| 9 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 death | nmod:poss |
| 10 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sorrow | nsubj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 sorrow | mark |
| 12 | sorrow | sorrow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 filled | conj |
| 13 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 gave | advmod |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sorrow | ccomp |
| 15 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past | Alive | the court | with mirth | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent court=Patient with mirth=Instrument | |||
| 2 | sorrow | to-infinitive | Arthur's death | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | give | past | Arthur's death not said here | birth | soon property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birth=Theme | |||
| 4 | die | Arthur | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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