English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 14
So Lady Margaret went to bed a beauteous maiden, and rose up a Laidly Worm.
Who acts: Lady Margaret · What happens: go, rise up · To what, where: beauteous maiden, bed, Laidly Worm
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 (Lady Margaret), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Margaret | compound |
| 3 | Margaret | Margaret | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 bed | case |
| 6 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 maiden | det |
| 8 | beauteous | beauteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 maiden | amod |
| 9 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rose | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 rose | cc |
| 12 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 rose | compound:prt |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 Worm | det |
| 15 | Laidly | Laidly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Worm | compound |
| 16 | Worm | worm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rose | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Lady Margaret | a beauteous maiden | bed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | rise up | past | Lady Margaret not said here | a Laidly Worm | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location worm=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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