English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 1
In Bamborough Castle once lived a king who had a fair wife and two children, a son named Childe Wynd and a daughter named Margaret.
Who acts: king · What happens: live, have, name · To what, where: king, Bamborough, fair wife, son, daughter
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Bamborough | case |
| 2 | Bamborough | Bamborough | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 lived | obl |
| 3 | Castle | Castle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Bamborough | flat |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 lived | advmod |
| 5 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lived | obj |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 king | acl:relcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 wife | det |
| 11 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 wife | amod |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 children | cc |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 children | nummod |
| 15 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 wife | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 son | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 son | det |
| 18 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wife | conj |
| 19 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 son | acl |
| 20 | Childe | Childe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 named | xcomp |
| 21 | Wynd | Wynd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Childe | flat |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 daughter | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 daughter | det |
| 24 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wife | conj |
| 25 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 daughter | acl |
| 26 | Margaret | Margaret | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 named | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a king | Bamborough | once property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme king=Location | |||
| 2 | have | past | a king | a fair wife and two children and a son and a daughter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient | ||||
| 3 | name | participle | a son not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | name | participle | a daughter not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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