English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 26
Then they set to work and built a long ship, and its keel they made of the rowan tree.
Who acts: men, keel · What happens: set, work, build, make · To what, where: long ship
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, keel), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 set | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 set | nsubj |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 work | mark |
| 5 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 set | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 built | cc |
| 7 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 ship | det |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ship | amod |
| 10 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 built | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 made | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 made | cc |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 keel | nmod:poss |
| 14 | keel | keel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | nsubj |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 made | nsubj |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 tree | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tree | det |
| 19 | rowan | rowan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tree | compound |
| 20 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | men = man | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | work | to-infinitive | men = man not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | build | past | men = man not said here | a long ship | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ship=Product | ||||
| 4 | make | past | ship's keel | of the rowan tree | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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