English Fairy Tales, Earl Mar's Daughter, sentence 45
The swanlets took charge of the bride while the goshawk dashed down and tied the bridegroom to a tree.
Who acts: swanlets, goshawk · What happens: take, dash down, tie, charge · To what, where: charge, bridegroom, bride
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 (swanlets, goshawk), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 swanlets | det |
| 2 | swanlets | swanlet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 bride | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bride | det |
| 7 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 charge | nmod |
| 8 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 dashed | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 goshawk | det |
| 10 | goshawk | goshawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dashed | nsubj |
| 11 | dashed | dash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | advcl |
| 12 | down | down | ADV | _ | 11 dashed | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 tied | cc |
| 14 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bridegroom | det |
| 16 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tied | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 tree | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 tree | det |
| 19 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tied | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the swanlets | charge of the bride | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dash down | past | the goshawk | down property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tie | past | the swanlets not said here | the bridegroom | to a tree | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent bridegroom=Patient to tree=Co-Patient | |||
| 4 | charge | the bride | nom charge «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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