English Fairy Tales, Earl Mar's Daughter, sentence 22
And every year a little son came to them as bonny as bonny could be.
Who acts: little son, bonny · What happens: come, be · To what, where: birds
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Earl Mar's Daughter. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little son, bonny), 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 | _ | 7 came | cc |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 year | det |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 son | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 son | amod |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 came | obl |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 bonny | advmod |
| 11 | bonny | bonny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 be | nsubj |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 bonny | case |
| 13 | bonny | bonny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bonny | nmod |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 be | aux |
| 15 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 came | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a little son | birds = bird | year | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | can | could | bonny as bonny | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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