English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 24
But when Childe Wynd heard the news, he swore a mighty oath to rescue his sister and revenge her on her cruel stepmother.
Who acts: Childe, Worm · What happens: hear, swear, rescue, sister · To what, where: news, mighty oath
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, Worm), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 swore | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 heard | advmod |
| 3 | Childe | Childe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | Wynd | Wynd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Childe | flat |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 swore | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 news | det |
| 7 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 swore | nsubj |
| 10 | swore | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 oath | det |
| 12 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 oath | amod |
| 13 | oath | oath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 swore | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 rescue | mark |
| 15 | rescue | rescue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 swore | advcl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 sister | nmod:poss |
| 17 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rescue | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 revenge | cc |
| 19 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sister | conj |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sister | nsubj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 stepmother | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 stepmother | nmod:poss |
| 23 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 stepmother | amod |
| 24 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rescue | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 swore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Childe | the news | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | swear | past | Childe | a mighty oath | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent oath=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | rescue | to-infinitive | Childe not said here | on Worm's cruel stepmother | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | sister | Worm | 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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