English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 13
I weird ye to be a Laidly Worm, And borrowed shall ye never be, Until Childe Wynd, the King's own son Come to the Heugh and thrice kiss thee; Until the world comes to an end, Borrowed shall ye never be.
Who acts: ye, own son, world · What happens: be, borrow, not be, come · To what, where: Laidly Worm, Heugh, end
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 (ye, own son, world), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 weird | nsubj |
| 2 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 Worm | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 Worm | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 Worm | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Worm | det |
| 7 | Laidly | Laidly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Worm | compound |
| 8 | Worm | worm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 weird | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 borrowed | punct |
| 10 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 borrowed | cc |
| 11 | borrowed | borrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Worm | conj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 be | aux |
| 13 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 be | nsubj |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 be | advmod |
| 15 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 borrowed | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Childe | punct |
| 17 | Until | Until | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Childe | compound |
| 18 | Childe | Childe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Worm | appos |
| 19 | Wynd | Wynd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Childe | flat |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Come | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 King | det |
| 22 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 son | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 King | case |
| 24 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 son | amod |
| 25 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Come | nsubj |
| 26 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 Childe | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 Heugh | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Heugh | det |
| 29 | Heugh | Heugh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Come | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 kiss | cc |
| 31 | thrice | thrice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 kiss | amod |
| 32 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 Heugh | conj |
| 33 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 32 kiss | nmod |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 comes | punct |
| 35 | Until | until | SCONJ | _ | 38 comes | mark |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 world | det |
| 37 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 comes | nsubj |
| 38 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 Come | parataxis |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 end | case |
| 40 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 end | det |
| 41 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 comes | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 Borrowed | punct |
| 43 | Borrowed | borrow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 end | acl |
| 44 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 be | aux |
| 45 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 47 be | nsubj |
| 46 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 47 be | advmod |
| 47 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 43 Borrowed | advcl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 weird | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | to-infinitive | ye | a Laidly Worm | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | borrow | past | ye not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not be | shall | ye | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | come | infinitive | the King's own son | the Heugh and thrice kiss thee | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to heugh=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | come | present | the world | to a end | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | borrow | participle | a end not said here | vn obtain-13.5.2 «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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