English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 29
Raise storms, or bore the hull, but nohow must he touch shore.”
Who acts: Raise storms, Wynd · What happens: bear, touch · To what, where: hull, shore
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 (Raise storms, 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 | Raise | raise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 storms | compound |
| 2 | storms | storm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bore | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bore | punct |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 bore | cc |
| 5 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hull | det |
| 7 | hull | hull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bore | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 touch | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 touch | cc |
| 10 | nohow | nohow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 touch | reparandum |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 touch | aux |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 touch | nsubj |
| 13 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 bore | parataxis |
| 14 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 touch | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 touch | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 touch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past | Raise storms | the hull | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hull=Patient | ||||
| 2 | touch | must | Wynd | shore | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme shore=Co-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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