English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 2
Childe Wynd went forth to seek his fortune, and soon after he had gone the queen his mother died.
Who acts: Childe, mother · What happens: go, seek, die · To what, where: fortune, queen
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 (Childe, mother), 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 | Childe | Childe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 2 | Wynd | Wynd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Childe | flat |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 seek | mark |
| 6 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | advcl |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 8 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seek | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gone | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 gone | cc |
| 11 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 gone | advmod |
| 12 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 15 gone | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gone | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 gone | aux |
| 15 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 went | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 queen | det |
| 17 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gone | obj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 mother | nmod:poss |
| 19 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 died | nsubj |
| 20 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 queen | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Childe | forth property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seek | to-infinitive | Childe not said here | Childe's fortune | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past · perfect | Childe | the queen | soon property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location queen=Theme | |||
| 4 | die | past | Childe's mother | the queen not said here | tree rules |
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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