English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 25
And three-and-thirty of his men took the oath with him.
Who acts: men · What happens: take · To what, where: thirty
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 (men), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 took | cc |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 thirty | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 thirty | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 thirty | cc |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 thirty | punct |
| 6 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 took | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 men | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 men | nmod:poss |
| 9 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 took | nsubj |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 oath | det |
| 12 | oath | oath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 took | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Childe's men | thirty | with Childe | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oath=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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