English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 28
But as they got near the keep, the stepmother felt by her magic power that something was being wrought against her, so she summoned her familiar imps and said: “Childe Wynd is coming over the seas; he must never land.
Who acts: men, stepmother, something, Childe Wynd, Wynd · What happens: get, feel, be, summon, say, come · To what, where: keep, familiar imps, seas · Speech: someone speaks here
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, stepmother, something, Childe Wynd), 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 | _ | 11 felt | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 got | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 felt | advcl |
| 5 | near | near | ADP | _ | 7 keep | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 keep | det |
| 7 | keep | keep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 stepmother | det |
| 10 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 felt | nsubj |
| 11 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 power | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 power | nmod:poss |
| 14 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 power | amod |
| 15 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 felt | obl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 wrought | mark |
| 17 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 20 wrought | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 wrought | cop |
| 19 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 wrought | cop |
| 20 | wrought | wrought | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 felt | xcomp |
| 21 | against | against | ADP | _ | 22 her | case |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 wrought | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 summoned | punct |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 summoned | advmod |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 summoned | nsubj |
| 26 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 felt | conj |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 imps | nmod:poss |
| 28 | familiar | familiar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 imps | amod |
| 29 | imps | imp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 summoned | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 said | cc |
| 31 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 summoned | conj |
| 32 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 37 coming | punct |
| 33 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 coming | punct |
| 34 | Childe | Childe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Wynd | compound |
| 35 | Wynd | Wynd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 coming | nsubj |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 coming | aux |
| 37 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 said | ccomp |
| 38 | over | over | ADP | _ | 40 seas | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 seas | det |
| 40 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 coming | obl |
| 41 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 45 land | punct |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 land | nsubj |
| 43 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 land | aux |
| 44 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 45 land | advmod |
| 45 | land | land | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 felt | advcl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | men = man | the keep | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | the stepmother | by stepmother's magic power | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | something | against stepmother; wrought property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | summon | past | stepmother | stepmother's familiar imps | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent imp=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | stepmother not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | come in a quote | present · progressive | Childe Wynd | the seas | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over sea=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | not land in a quote | must | Wynd | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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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