English Fairy Tales, Earl Mar's Daughter, sentence 24
Seven years passed thus and then a great trouble came to them.
Who acts: great trouble · What happens: pass, come · 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 (great trouble), 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 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 passed | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 came | cc |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 came | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 trouble | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 trouble | amod |
| 9 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 came | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | year | thus property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | a great trouble | birds = bird | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial_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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